Jeff Saunders Ph.D

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Biography

Mr. Jeff Saunders Co-Founded Resilience Therapeutics. Jeff Saunders join Resilience Therapeutics with over twenty-five years of drug discovery, team building and leadership experience in start-up and early stage discovery organizations. Over the last decade he has been a pioneer and leader in developing and evolving outsourcing models for effective and highly productive drug design teams. Dr. Saunders most recently held the position of vice president of small molecule drug discovery at Ember Therapeutics. Prior to joining Ember in 2012, Jeff was the vice president of chemistry at Agios. Dr. Saunders also worked as a consultant at Elixir Pharmaceuticals, where he managed all chemistry and related intellectual property for five years. Prior to this, he held the position of principal investigator at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, where he worked for 14 years as chemistry head and project head for multiple programs. Previously, he was a research scientist at the Squibb Institute for Medical Research. Dr. Saunders received his A.B. in chemistry from Hope College in Michigan, earned his Ph.D. in synthetic organic chemistry at the University of South Carolina and held an NIH postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania.