Orit Foord

Orit Foord, Ph.D joined ImmPACT Bio as Senior Director of Protein Science in January 2020. Orit brings over 20 years of experience in the biotech industry providing overall strategic, scientific, and technical leadership in antibody lead identification and optimization. Orit served as Sr. Director of Research at Adicet Bio working toward developing an allogeneic T cell platform of engineered immune-cell therapeutics for patients with solid tumors. Prior roles include VP of Antibody Discovery at Stemcentrx, and leading antibody discovery teams at Trellis Bioscience. Orit is an inventor on several dozen patents covering B cell technology and therapeutic antibodies. She received her PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.