Keith Orford

Dr. Orford currently serves as Chief Medical Officer and EVP of Clinical and Translational Science at FogPharma. Prior to joining the Board of Directors in November 2021, Dr. Orford served as Chief Medical Officer at Calithera since 2015, where he oversaw clinical development activities, including Clinical Operations and Medical Affairs. Prior to joining Calithera, Dr. Orford was the Clinical Development Lead in the Immuno-Oncology and Combinations Development Performance Unit at GlaxoSmithKline, where he oversaw the clinical activities on multiple early-stage clinical trials with targeted agents and novel immune-based therapies. Prior to GlaxoSmithKline, Dr. Orford was at Merck, where he worked on early clinical development programs across oncology and other therapeutic areas. Previously, Dr. Orford was a Research Fellow and Instructor at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where he completed clinical training in Internal Medicine, as well as postdoctoral work studying the epigenetic regulation of hematopoietic and embryonic stem cell differentiation. Dr. Orford received his undergraduate, M.D., and Ph.D. degrees from Georgetown University.