Davide Foletti

As a Senior Scientist in Biology at 23andMe’s Therapeutics group Davide primarily oversees programs from research through the late stage development of therapeutics towards Investigational New Drug application and clinical trials. He also works on target discovery and validation, as well as analysis of new target proposals and evaluation of therapeutic areas. Davide also is responsible for mentoring scientists and other junior staff within 23andMe’s Therapeutics group.

Prior to coming to 23andMe Davide spent a decade at Pfizer’s Rinat Laboratories in South San Francisco as a Principal Scientist and Associate Research Fellow. Before that he was among the first Scientists to work at Rinat Neuroscience Corporation in Palo Alto.

Davide received a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH). He also has an MS in biochemistry from ETH. His postdoctoral work was done at Stanford University School of Medicine’s Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology where Dr. Richard Scheller was his advisor.