Julia P. Gregory

Biography

Ms. Gregory formerly served as President and CEO of Five Prime Therapeutics, Inc. from 2009 until July 2012, and as Executive Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Financial Officer of Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from 2000 to 2008… While at Five Prime and Lexicon, she led transactions for several strategic partnerships including those with GlaxoSmithKline, Human Genome Sciences, Genentech, Inc., Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited. She was the Chief Financial Officer of Lexicon during its $220 million initial public offering and was involved in the creation of Lexicon’s $500 million private equity investment plan with Invus, LLP. Most recently, Ms. Gregory served as Chief Executive Officer at ContraFect Corporation from November 2013 through April 2016, and as a Member of the Company’s Board of Directors from April 2014 through March 2016. Prior to her appointment as CEO, she served as ContraFect’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from July 2012 to November 2013. Ms. Gregory is also Chairman and CEO of the biotechnology financial and management advisory firm Isometry Advisors, Inc. Ms. Gregory also has twenty years of investment banking experience, starting at Dillon, Read & Co. and subsequently at Punk, Ziegel & Company, where she served as the head of investment banking and head of its life sciences practice. Ms. Gregory has also served on the Board of Directors at The Global TB Alliance for Drug Development, Clinipace Worldwide, and the Institute for the Study of Aging, a private foundation for Alzheimers. She is currently a Director at Iconic Therapeutics, and the Sosei Group Corporation. Ms. Gregory attained a Masters of Business Administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and earned her B.A. at the George Washington University.

Research Interest

biotechnology financial and management