Derek Kelaita

VP of Business Development at Lineage Cell Therapeutics

Derek Kelaita joined Lineage Cell Therapeutics as the Vice President, Business Development in August 2019. Derek brings 20 years of experience with publicly-traded and venture-backed biotechnology companies to Lineage. He was most recently Vice President of Business Development at ArmaGen from 2013 through early 2019, where he negotiated several early-stage research collaborations and option agreements with pharma partners related to the company’s blood-brain barrier technology as well as a $225M global license agreement with Shire plc (now part of Takeda Pharmaceuticals) for ArmaGen’s lead clinical stage program. Throughout his career, Derek is responsible for licensing/M&A transactions cumulatively valued at over $1 billion in multiple therapeutic areas including: Neurology (ArmaGen), Immunotherapy (AnaptysBio), Metabolic/diabetes (Cebix), Dental (Novalar), Infectious disease (Nventa), Oncology (Dendreon) and Cardiovascular disease (Corvas). He began his career as a Research Associate at the Sanford Burnham Institute in La Jolla, CA. Derek has a BA in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from University of San Diego.

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