Keith Orford
Senior Vice President
Clinical Development
Calithera Biosciences
India
Biography
Dr. Orford is Senior Vice President of Clinical Development. Prior to joining Calithera in January 2015, Dr. Orford was the Clinical Development Lead in the Immuno-Oncology and Combinations Development Performance Unit at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) where he oversaw the clinical activities on multiple early stage clinical trials with targeted agents and novel immune-based therapies. Prior to GSK, Dr. Orford was at Merck, where he worked on early clinical development programs across oncology and other therapeutic areas. Previously, Dr. Orford was a Research Fellow and Instructor at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) where he completed clinical training in Internal Medicine as well as postdoctoral work studying the epigenetic regulation of hematopoietic and embryonic stem cell differentiation. Dr. Orford received his undergraduate, M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Georgetown University.
Research Interest
Clinical Development, Business Management
