Kronos Bio CEO and leadership

Norbert Bischofberger, Ph.D. has served as a member of our board of directors since June 2019. Dr. Bischofberger has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Kronos Bio, Inc., a biotechnology company, since August 2018. From August 1990 to August 2018, Dr. Bischofberger held various positions at Gilead Sciences, a biopharmaceutical company, and most recently served Gilead as Executive Vice President, Research and Development and Chief Scientific Officer. Prior to Gilead, Dr. Bischofberger served as a Senior Scientist in the DNA Synthesis group at Genentech, Inc., a biotechnology company, from 1986 to 1990. Dr. Bischofberger received a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule in Zurich, Switzerland and an M.S. in Chemistry from the University of Innsbruck.

Barbara joined Kronos Bio in 2020 with over 25 years of experience in the biopharma industry, most recently as the head of Cooley LLP’s international Life Sciences Practice. During her years at Cooley, Barbara served as outside counsel to scores of biopharma companies, helping them structure and negotiate their most transformative transactions. Barbara also served multiple terms on Cooley’s management committee, overseeing the firm during its greatest growth periods. Barbara has received numerous awards and accomplishments, including being recognized by Best Lawyers in America since 2008, and most recently as Biotechnology Lawyer of the Year for 2018, being elected to Northern California’s “Super Lawyers” annually since 2011, being listed as a “Band 1” attorney in the latest edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, and in the Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America. Barbara is a thought leader on deal making in the industry and has served as a member of the BIO Emerging Companies’ Section Governing Board, as a guest lecturer at both the law and business schools of UC Berkeley and Stanford University, and serves on the business advisory board of Locust Walk Partners. Barbara is also a member of the board of directors of XOMA Corporation, and the board of trustees of the Keck Graduate Institute. Barbara received her JD from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, and her bachelor’s degree from Stanford University.

Jorge DiMartino M.D., Ph.D. joined Kronos Bio in 2019 as Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President, Clinical Development. Prior to joining Kronos Bio, Jorge served as Vice President, Translational Development Oncology at Celgene. He joined Celgene in 2011 to lead early stage oncology clinical programs and to direct the Translational Research Laboratories. In 2014, Jorge was appointed Head of the Epigenetics Thematic Center of Excellence (TCoE), a fully integrated unit driving drug discovery through clinical proof of concept efforts around epigenetic targets. During this time, he built a discovery team with industry leading epigenetic profiling capabilities in pursuit of chromatin modifier targets. His team has driven multiple epigenetic programs through Phase 1, delivering robust data packages to support proof of concept trial designs. In January 2019, Jorge added responsibility for Protein Homeostasis TCoE and joined the Research Management Team to governance for discovery programs from Target ID to development candidate nomination. Prior to joining Celgene, Jorge was Group Medical Director at Genentech in the Oncology Exploratory Clinical Development group. There he led early clinical development of the hedgehog pathway inhibitor, vismodegib and was Development Team Lead for the BCL2 inhibitor programs (navitoclax and venetoclax). Jorge received his Ph.D. in Immunology from Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, and his M.D. from University of California San Diego. He completed a residency in Pediatrics and a fellowship in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, both at Stanford University School of Medicine where he continues to see pediatric oncology patients as a member of the Adjunct Clinical Faculty.

Chris is Chief Scientific Officer at Kronos Bio, helping to discover and develop medicines for the treatment of cancer by drugging transcriptional regulatory networks. He joined Kronos from Third Rock Ventures, where he was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence focusing on discovering and launching new innovative therapeutic companies. Previously, he was Vice President and Head of Chemistry at FORMA Therapeutics, responsible for the advancement of a pipeline of transformative medicines and applying an array of discovery chemistry platforms and approaches to target classes in epigenetics and protein homeostasis. Earlier, Chris was at Merck Research Laboratories for 19 years where he held various positions in medicinal chemistry. His project experiences in discovery and development have been in therapeutic categories that include cancer, hematology, sickle cell disease, asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, NASH & other inflammatory diseases, cardiac arrhythmia and neurodegenerative diseases, and have led to the advancement of numerous development compounds into clinical trials. Chris also serves as a member of the WARF Therapeutics Advisory Board, helping to move therapeutic innovations forward in drug discovery and development. After graduating from Bowdoin College with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and art, he earned his Ph.D. in synthetic organic chemistry from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, and then carried out postdoctoral research in chemical synthesis at Harvard University.

Norbert Bischofberger, Ph.D. has served as a member of our board of directors since June 2019. Dr. Bischofberger has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Kronos Bio, Inc., a biotechnology company, since August 2018. From August 1990 to August 2018, Dr. Bischofberger held various positions at Gilead Sciences, a biopharmaceutical company, and most recently served Gilead as Executive Vice President, Research and Development and Chief Scientific Officer. Prior to Gilead, Dr. Bischofberger served as a Senior Scientist in the DNA Synthesis group at Genentech, Inc., a biotechnology company, from 1986 to 1990. Dr. Bischofberger received a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule in Zurich, Switzerland and an M.S. in Chemistry from the University of Innsbruck.