Dr. David Mauro is the Chief Medical Officer at Ankyra Therapeutics. He has over 20 years in oncology drug development. His notable accomplishments include guiding the translational, preliminary, and later stages of development for more than 25 Investigational New Drug candidates over the past decade. His previous roles include serving as the Chief Medical Officer for Recursion, Codiak BioSciences, Checkmate Pharmaceutical, Prelude Therapeutics, and Advaxis. Dr. Mauro has also held leadership roles within the clinical and medical affairs teams at Merck, Bristol Myers Squibb, and Becton Dickinson.

Dr. Mauro received a B.S. in Biochemistry from Cornell University and an M.D./Ph.D. from Temple University. He completed his residency in anatomic pathology at the National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute.