Jun Xu, Ph.D

Dr. Jun Xu joined LLS in 2011. LLS Therapy Acceleration Program (TAP) seeks to fund clinical development of therapies or diagnostics that have the potential to change the standard of care for patients with blood cancer, especially in areas of high unmet medical need.  Dr. Xu has reviewed several hundred funding requests to select the best ones to be supported by LLS, among them Stemline, Kite and Forty Seven. She also serves as Research Advisory Committee Member for a diverse LLS TAP alliance portfolio.

Prior to joining LLS Dr. Xu spent more than 16 years working in healthcare industry including more than a decade at Pfizer. She had successfully led multiple projects in Oncology and Immunology from target validation to clinical development. Dr. Xu has broad and in-depth experience in drug discovery and development, especially in oncology and inflammation therapeutic areas. Dr. Xu has published in peer reviewed journals including Nature and is the lead inventor for several patents. Dr. Xu received her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego and conducted her postdoc research at the California Institute of Technology.