John Desjarlais, PhD

Chief Scientific Officer at Xencor, Inc.

Speaker

John Desjarlais is the Chief Scientific Officer of Xencor, where he and his team have built a variety of antibody engineering and enhancement platforms, leading to multiple clinical-stage and approved antibody programs. Prior to Xencor, John was an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Penn State University. His education includes a Postdoctoral Fellowship at UC Berkeley, a PhD in Biophysics from Johns Hopkins University, and a BS in Physics from UMass Amherst.