Robert Sikorski

Dr. Robert Sikorski began his engagement with Teon in March 2019. He is serving a strategic role to support the advancement of Teon into clinical development. By providing leadership to build clinical functions that include clinical operations, pharmacovigilance, pharmacokinetics, biostatistics, and regulatory affairs, Dr. Sikorski plays a major role in advancing Teon’s immuno-oncology portfolio.

Dr. Sikorski has 20 years of clinical and industry experience with accomplishments in drug development across pre-IND, early stage, late stage, and post marketing programs. He is currently the Managing Director of Woodside Way Ventures. He has previously served as the Chief Medical Officer in charge of Global Clinical Development at Five Prime Therapeutics, a publicly traded biotechnology company. Prior to this, Dr. Sikorski was as a Senior Director leading Global Oncology Research and Development at MedImmune (the Biologics Division of AstraZeneca, PLC), where his group advanced the clinical development of a portfolio of immuno-oncology drugs. He played a major role in building the early Medimmune/AstraZeneca biologics pipeline and in partnering and acquisition efforts that included OX40, PD1, CTLA4 (tremelimumab), oncolytic virus, cell therapy, and TLR targeting assets. Prior to Medimmune, he served as Director of Global Oncology Research and Development at Amgen, where he led late stage global clinical development and post marketing efforts for oncology products. His seminal work in the development of panitumumab (now marketed as Vectibix®) led to the drug’s approval with a first-in-class companion diagnostic based on KRAS mutations.

Dr. Sikorski began his career as a Howard Hughes Research Fellow and Visiting Scientist at the National Cancer Institute and the National Human Genome Research Institute in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate Harold Varmus. Dr. Sikorski received an M.D. and Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine through a Medical Scientist Training Program scholarship. He completed his residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and an oncology fellowship at The Johns Hopkins Oncology Center and is board eligible in both medical oncology and internal medicine.