Jill Conwell

Biography

Jill Conwell joined Idera as Vice President, Human Resources in February 2015. Prior to joining Idera, she served as Senior Human Resources Director at Shire Pharmaceuticals, where she partnered with business leaders in many segments of that company in aligning their organization strategy, structure, and plans with the overall business strategy. Prior to joining Shire, Ms. Conwell held roles of increasing responsibility at Accenture in that company’s Health & Life Sciences Consulting practices and with MacDermid, Inc. Ms. Conwell holds a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from the University of Virginia and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. 

Research Interest

company developing novel nucleic acid therapeutic approaches for the treatment of certain cancers and rare diseases. Idera’s immunotherapy approach is based on the modulation of toll-like receptors (TLRs) while our third-generation antisense technology is designed to inhibit the production of disease-associated proteins by targeting RNA.