Primary Job Title Co-Founder & VP Buisness Development Primary Organization AnaptysBio
Location San Diego, California, United States Regions Greater San Diego Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Dr. Cubitt has more than 13 years experience in developing intellectual property portfolios to create essential protection and substantial value around emerging opportunities.
He cofounded Anaptys Biosciences, an antibody company, in 2005 and then served as executive director of corporate development until 2009. Previous to Anaptys, he served
as director of intellectual property at Ambit Biosciences, associate director intellectual property X-Ceptor Therapeutics and senior manager, technology and intellectual property at Aurora Biosciences.
Dr. Cubitt was a founding scientist at Aurora, where he was responsible for improving green fluorescent protein technology and providing the technical support for the development of Aurora’s intellectual property and licensing strategy for fluorescent proteins.
Previous to Aurora, Dr. Cubitt worked in the laboratory of Nobel laureate Dr. Roger Tsien and created the first yellow fluorescent protein through rational protein design and random mutagenesis. Dr. Cubitt did his postdoctoral training at Cornell University Medical College in New York.
He received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Sheffield and his B.S. in medical biochemistry from the University of Birmingham.
