Alessandra Cesano

Alessandra Cesano, MD, Ph.D., is the chief medical officer of NanoString Technologies, Inc. since July 2015.

Prior to joining NanoString Technologies, Inc., Dr. Cesano was a chief medical officer at Cleave Biosciences, Inc. and before then she served as a chief medical officer and chief operations officer at Nodality, Inc., where she built and led the research and development group while providing the overall clinical vision for the organization. Between 1998 and 2008, Dr. Cesano held various management positions at Amgen, Biogen Idec and SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, where she helped to advance various oncology drugs through late-stage development and FDA approvals.

Early in her professional career Dr. Cesano spent 12 years conducting research in tumor immunology, including nine years at the Wistar Institute, an NCI Basic Cancer Center connected with the University of Pennsylvania.