Bill Thelin

Bill Thelin, Ph.D. is the Chief Scientific Officer at Altis Biosystems. He has more than 15 years of drug development experience, overseeing preclinical from discovery to IND-filing. Prior to joining Altis, Bill served as the Vice President of Research at Parion Sciences. In his tenure at Parion, he helped to build a portfolio of novel, first-in-class therapeutic programs for pulmonary and ophthalmic diseases, which collectively raised >$150M in non-dilutive funding through NIH grants and corporate partnerships. He received a Ph.D. in Cell Biology at the University of North Carolina and was a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Richard Boucher at the UNC Cystic Fibrosis Center. Prior to Altis, his scientific expertise focused on epithelial ion channel and receptor pharmacology, mucosal disease, and targeted drug discovery.