Mark Nevins

Biography

Mr. Nevins joined Apexigen near its founding and serves as Vice President, Business Development. Prior to joining Apexigen, Mr. Nevins served as Director, Business Development at Aradigm Corp., and at Abgenix, Inc. and held positions of increasing business development responsibility at G. D. Searle & Co, the pharmaceutical subsidiary of Monsanto Company.

Research Interest

Mr. Nevins has more than 35 years of pharmaceutical industry experience; nearly 20 of those years have been devoted to business development and licensing. He has negotiated license agreements and strategic alliances, managed research collaborations, and, while at Abgenix, he participated in the transformative strategic alliance with AstraZeneca for the development of antibodies against multiple oncology targets. Earlier in his career, he conducted drug discovery research for G. D. Searle & Co. Mr. Nevins holds a Master’s Degree in Psychology from Central Michigan Universty and an MBA from Dominican University.