Dr. Maria E. Fuentes has been Executive Vice President of Research of Blade Therapeutics, Inc. since August 21, 2017. Dr. Fuentes has extensive drug discovery experience in fibrotic, inflammatory and respiratory diseases, playing a lead role in multiple IND filings. Most recently, she served as Group Director, Fibrosis Discovery Biology at Bristol-Myers Squibb. In this position her focus was to advance into the clinic small molecules and antibody therapeutics for the treatment of fibrotic diseases, including interstitial pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). Prior to this, Dr. Fuentes held leadership positions at Roche (Palo Alto) and Hoffmann-La Roche (Nutley, NJ), including as Research Director and Head of the Respiratory Drug Discovery Group. During her tenure, she was responsible for progressing several projects to clinical trials and collaborated closely with the company’s Early Development Groups to establish translational approaches, including biomarker discovery and proof of mechanism studies. Dr. Fuentes received her PhD degree from the Catholic University of Chile and was a Fogarty post-doctoral fellow in the Pharmacology Department, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, Biochemist from University of Chile. Dr. Maria E. Fuentes has been Executive Vice President of Research of Blade Therapeutics, Inc. since August 21, 2017. Dr. Fuentes has extensive drug discovery experience in fibrotic, inflammatory and respiratory diseases, playing a lead role in multiple IND filings. Most recently, she served as Group Director, Fibrosis Discovery Biology at Bristol-Myers Squibb. In this position her focus was to advance into the clinic small molecules and antibody therapeutics for the treatment of fibrotic diseases, including interstitial pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). Prior to this, Dr. Fuentes held leadership positions at Roche (Palo Alto) and Hoffmann-La Roche (Nutley, NJ), including as Research Director and Head of the Respiratory Drug Discovery Group. During her tenure, she was responsible for progressing several projects to clinical trials and collaborated closely with the company’s Early Development Groups to establish translational approaches, including biomarker discovery and proof of mechanism studies. Dr. Fuentes received her PhD degree from the Catholic University of Chile and was a Fogarty post-doctoral fellow in the Pharmacology Department, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, Biochemist from University of Chile.

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