R. Scott Struthers
Non-Executive Chairman
Healthcare
Fundacao OsWaldo Cruz
Albania
Biography
Dr. Struthers is Founder and CEO of Crinetics Pharmaceuticals Inc. Prior to Crinetics, he was Senior Director and Head, Endocrinology and Metabolism at Neurocrine Biosciences. There he initiated and led the company’s efforts to discover and develop orally active, nonpeptide GnRH antagonists. This resulted in a first-in-class compound, elagolix, which has demonstrated safety and efficacy in over 40 clinical trials totaling more than 3,000 patients. Prior to Neurocrine, he co-founded ScienceMedia Inc. to develop eLearning solutions for the life sciences and higher education markets and led contract research efforts at Biosym Technologies to develop and apply computational tools for drug discovery and structural biology. Dr. Struthers is also a co-founder of the San Diego Entrepreneurs Exchange (sdentrepreneurs.org) and currently serves as it’s President. He is an author of more than 75 scientific publications in the fields of computational and medicinal chemistry, endocrinology, receptor biology and clinical pharmacology. He holds Ph.D. in physiology and pharmacology from the University of California, San Diego.
Research Interest
Dr. Struthers is Founder and CEO of Crinetics Pharmaceuticals Inc. Prior to Crinetics, he was Senior Director and Head, Endocrinology and Metabolism at Neurocrine Biosciences. There he initiated and led the company’s efforts to discover and develop orally active, nonpeptide GnRH antagonists. This resulted in a first-in-class compound, elagolix, which has demonstrated safety and efficacy in over 40 clinical trials totaling more than 3,000 patients. Prior to Neurocrine, he co-founded ScienceMedia Inc. to develop eLearning solutions for the life sciences and higher education markets and led contract research efforts at Biosym Technologies to develop and apply computational tools for drug discovery and structural biology. Dr. Struthers is also a co-founder of the San Diego Entrepreneurs Exchange (sdentrepreneurs.org) and currently serves as it’s President. He is an author of more than 75 scientific publications in the fields of computational and medicinal chemistry, endocrinology, receptor biology and clinical pharmacology. He holds Ph.D. in physiology and pharmacology from the University of California, San Diego.
