Scott DeWire, Ph.D.

Corporate SVP and Head of Global Business Development at Boehringer Ingelheim

Speaker

Scott is responsible for business development and licensing at Boehringer Ingelheim’s Cancer Immunology and Biotherapeutics groups. BI has several academic and biotech partners in the fields of oncolytic virotherapy and viral vector vaccines. Most notably, in September of 2018 after a two-year collaborative partnership, BI acquired Vira Therapeutics of Innsbruck, Austria.

Scott holds a PhD from the University of North Carolina, where he studied herpesvirus replication and latency. He completed his postdoc in the lab of Nobel Laureate Robert Lefkowitz, MD at Duke University. Scott next co-founded Trevena Inc, a GPCR-focused biotech headquartered in Philadelphia, where he was the Assistant Director of Biology. Since joining BI in 2012, Scott held various roles in the research group before joining BD&L in 2016.