Steve Monks

Steve is the Chief Technical Officer at Pyxis Oncology. Prior to joining Pyxis, Steve was an independent consultant advising small to medium biotech companies in the oncology, vaccine, and tissue repair spaces on CMC (chemistry, manufacturing, and controls), Quality, and Regulatory strategies. Prior to this, Steve served as Senior Vice President of Development at Aura Biosciences where he spearheaded all product technical development efforts for their Virus-Like drug conjugate AU-011. Prior to Aura, Steve was a member of the executive leadership team at Agenus, where he was responsible for internal and external cGMP manufacturing, warehousing and distribution, and the analytical and process development functions across the entire Agenus pipeline.

Steve received his Ph.D. from The University of Melbourne and a BSc with first-class honors in Zoology from the University of Queensland, Australia.