Neera Clase

Neera has more than 20 years of biopharmaceutical leadership experience across multiple therapeutic areas spanning access and reimbursement, business development, and sales and marketing. Her experience includes successfully launching 10+ products across multiple therapeutic areas at both large pharma and small biotech companies.

Prior to joining Tarsus, Neera was most recently the Vice President of Access and Reimbursement at Acadia Pharmaceuticals. Before that, Neera was at Relypsa Pharmaceuticals, where she established the payer strategy and built the managed markets team. She has been involved with multiple first-in-class product launches and is responsible for leading the commercial access and reimbursement functions to successfully support these launches. Neera has broad reimbursement experience in both the small molecule and medical device areas focusing on payers, distribution, patient support services, lifecycle management, and pricing and contracting.

Before working in biopharmaceutical start-ups, Neera had a 15-year career at Abbott Laboratories, where she held a variety of positions of increasing responsibility, progressing to the General Manager of Market Access for Abbott Diabetes Care. Neera received her BA in life sciences/psychology from Indiana State University and her MSW from the Indiana University School of Social Work.