Robert Bob Campbell

Robert “Bob” Campbell is Senior Vice president of Biological and Translational Sciences at Twentyeight-Seven. Over the span of his 30+ year career in drug discovery, Bob has held positions of increasing responsibility in both biotech (Cadus Pharmaceuticals) and large pharma (Hoffmann-La Roche, Eli Lilly & Company). Notably, Bob was key in establishing Lilly’s kinase platform which produced a number of clinical candidates including Verzenio (approved in 2017). Bob established and led Oncology as Director of the Lilly Singapore Centre for Drug Discovery from 2008-2010. Thereafter, he returned to the Lilly Corporate Center to lead the Epigenetics platform and Novel Target Validation groups, exploring mechanisms of innate and acquired resistance in oncology. He has published over 130 papers in peer-reviewed journals and books. Bob currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of SLAS Discovery and is a member of the editorial board for Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. He received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Rutgers University.