One of In Vivo’s 2023 Rising Leaders, Pheast Therapeutics’ chief development officer Amira Barkal, is also busy becoming a qualified physician. She is in the unusual position of leading an early-stage drug development program and being hands-on helping patients at the same time.
Pheast Therapeutics was founded in 2020 as a spinout from Stanford University based on Amira Barkal’s research around boosting macrophage...
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