Jessica Powell

Jessica has over 20 years of experience in academic and pharmaceutical research and operations management. Jessica leads the Clinical Operations team at Alkahest and is responsible for developing and implementing the clinical operations strategy and overseeing the execution of clinical studies across Alkahest’s pipeline. Jessica has managed programs from pre-IND through Phase 3 clinical trials across disease areas including inflammation, ophthalmology, cardiovascular disease, and neurodegenerative diseases with particular expertise in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease clinical trials. Prior to joining Alkahest, Jessica held roles in research and program management with Bioclinica, SRI International, Stanford University, UCLA School of Medicine, and UT MD Anderson Cancer Research Center. Jessica has a B.A. in Biology from Texas A&M University.