Hopkins Biotech Podcast

Steve Doberstein: Scaling Technologies from Idea to Clinical Development

Hopkins Biotech Podcast

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Dr. Steve Doberstein has had a long career leading Research groups at a number of biotech companies, like “XOMA”- a monoclonal antibody discovery and development company, “Five Prime Therapeutics”- a protein and antibody discovery and development company, “Xencor”- a leader in protein engineering and “Exelixis”-a genomics-based drug discovery company. Today is the founder and CEO of Kahiliholo Consulting (based in San Francisco), that supports biotech enterprises and early-stage founders. Pri...

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