James A. Wells

55 years old

James A. Wells, Ph.D. is a co-founder of our company. From April 1998 to August 2005, he served as our President and Chief Scientific Officer. Since August 2005, Dr. Wells has served as Chairman of our Scientific Advisory Board and as a consultant to our company. He is a Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology and Director of the Small Molecule Discovery Center at the University of California, San Francisco. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers and has been named inventor on more than 50 issued or filed patents. He has won a number of research awards including the Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry given by the American Chemical Society in 1990, the DuVignead award given by the American Peptide Society in 1998, the Aviv Award given by the Protein Society in 1998 and the Hans Neurath Award given by the Protein Society in 2003. In 1999, he was elected as a Member to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Wells holds a B.A. in Biochemistry from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Washington State University and was a Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Post-doctoral Fellow in the Biochemistry Department at Stanford University. read more ...
  • healthcare
  • Director
  • Vice President
  • Sunesis Pharmaceuticals
  • Biotechnology

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