Pavel A. Nikitin

Pavel A. Nikitin, PhD, has 7 years of industry experience in the antibody engineering and B-cell biology fields. Previously he was a Sr. Scientist at True North Therapeutics, a small startup in South San Francisco, CA that developed a monoclonal antibody Sutimlimab. After True North Therapeutics was acquired by Bioverativ and subsequently by Sanofi, Pavel led a group and a project team developing the second-generation C1s-inhibitor antibody with the improved PK profile. Prior to that Pavel was a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research in Emeryville, CA where he demonstrated the antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) of the anti-CMV antibody cocktail CSJ148 and contributed to the IND submission. He earned a Diploma with Honors (M.S.) in Molecular Biology from Novosibirsk State University and PhD in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology from Duke University School of Medicine.