Melanie Frigault

VP, Translational Medicine at Vincerx Pharma

Melanie Frigault, Ph.D. is the Vice President of Translational Medicine of Vincerx. In the year before joining Vincerx, Dr. Frigault was the US head of Translational Medicine at AstraZeneca with a strategic focus on precision medicine and accelerating clinical development using novel biomarker-based endpoints in hematologic malignancies and solid tumors. From 2016 to 2020, Dr. Frigault established a translational science department at Acerta Pharma in South San Francisco, CA to support the development of CALQUENCE® in mantle cell lymphoma (2017) and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (2019) with clinical biomarker data. Dr. Frigault held positions of increasing responsibility at AstraZeneca from 2011 to 2016 where she inserted science into the development of the portfolio ranging from target selection to phase 3 pivotal trials including biomarker discovery and companion diagnostic development. Dr. Frigault began her clinical research career at Novartis Institute of Biomedical Research in Cambridge, MA where she developed biomarkers and drove preclinical collaborations to inform clinical development.

Dr. Frigault obtained her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from McGill University, Québec, Canada.

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