Andrea Itano, Ph.d.
director
immunology
Pioneer Biomedical Inc
India
Biography
Andrea Itano, Ph.D. joins Evelo as senior vice president, immuno-inflammatory diseases. Prior to Evelo, Dr. Itano was vice president and head of the Tempero Discovery Performance Unit at GlaxoSmithKline, where she led a team of immunologists and chemists discovering and developing therapies for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases in the Treg and Th17 space. Dr. Itano has also held group leader positions at Amgen and Roche, and was CSO at Tempero Pharma, prior to its buyout by GlaxoSmithKline. Dr. Itano received a B.A. in microbiology and immunology and a Ph.D. in immunology from the University of California, Berkeley. She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Immunology at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Research Interest
Andrea Itano, Ph.D. joins Evelo as senior vice president, immuno-inflammatory diseases. Prior to Evelo, Dr. Itano was vice president and head of the Tempero Discovery Performance Unit at GlaxoSmithKline, where she led a team of immunologists and chemists discovering and developing therapies for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases in the Treg and Th17 space. Dr. Itano has also held group leader positions at Amgen and Roche, and was CSO at Tempero Pharma, prior to its buyout by GlaxoSmithKline. Dr. Itano received a B.A. in microbiology and immunology and a Ph.D. in immunology from the University of California, Berkeley. She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Immunology at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
