Thorsten Melcher

Thorsten Melcher, Ph.D., joined RefleXion in July 2019 as a chief business officer with over 25 years of experience in biotechnology and pharmaceutical business development. Most recently, Dr. Melcher served as CBO for Xyphos Biosciences, a startup developing next-generation CAR-T products. Previously, he served as senior director of new ventures at J&J where he championed business development projects focusing on therapeutics in oncology and neuroscience. Dr. Melcher was also a vice president at Varian Medical where he developed a strategy to integrate radiotherapy with diagnostics and therapeutics to improve combination cancer treatment. His other past tenures include co-founding three biotech companies. Dr. Melcher received a Master of Science in Biochemistry from the University of Hannover and he holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from Heidelberg University. He completed postdoctoral research in Molecular Biology at the University of California, San Francisco, and was previously on RefleXion’s scientific advisory board.