Hoey

Biography

"Anu joined Invenra in March of 2017 as Vice President, Corporate Development and is responsible for partnering, licensing, alliance and corporate development activities. Prior to joining Invenra, Anu was the Vice President of Business Development at Arcus. Prior to Arcus, Anu was the Senior Director of Business Development at Sutro Biosciences, where she was responsible for business development, licensing, alliance management and business strategy. During her time at Sutro, Anu helped to bring in over $150M of non-dilutive funding from partnering transactions with Celgene Corporation and EMD Serono. She was also responsible for all licensing efforts, both for research and PD/manufacturing groups within Sutro. Anu was the strategic business lead for the Sutro governance team and oversaw all internal and collaboration projects. Importantly, Anu was part of the strategic team to enable a $26M Series D funding to start the immuno-oncology program at Sutro, as well as the spin out of SutroVax. Prior to Sutro, Anu was a business development consultant from 2004-2012 where she negotiated many agreements and led strategic projects for Igenica, Bioseek, OncoMed, QLT, AGY and Celera. She started her career in the biotechnology industry as a molecular biologist at Tularik in 1998. Anu received her B.S. degree in Molecular Genetics from The Ohio State University, her M.S. degree in Molecular Biology from Case Western Reserve University where she worked on interferon signal transduction in the lab of Dr. George Stark at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and her MBA from the University of San Fransisco."

Research Interest

Her research interests include fields like Molecular Genetics