Mark K. Bennett
Senior Vice President of Research
research and development
Calithera Biosciences
India
Biography
Dr. Bennett has served as our Senior Vice President of Research since June 2010. From 2003 through 2009, Dr. Bennett was at Proteolix, Inc., most recently as Vice President of Research, where he led the research efforts in the discovery of carfilzomib, oprozomib, and PR-957. Dr. Bennett previously was Director of Cell Biology at Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and an Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Bennett received a B.S. degree in Biochemistry and Biophysics from Oregon State University, a Ph.D. degree in Neuroscience from the California Institute of Technology, and completed postdoctoral fellowships at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and Stanford University.
Research Interest
Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Biophysics
