Primary Job Title Chief Executive Officer and Chief Scientific Officer Primary Organization 
Molecular Templates
Location Georgetown, Texas, United States Regions Southern US Gender Male
Eric Poma, Ph.D. has served as Molecular Templates’ Chief Executive Officer and Chief Scientific Officer since the Company’s inception in 2009.From March 2005 until September 2008, Eric Poma was Vice President of Business Development of Innovive Pharmaceuticals (acquired by Cytrx Corporation), a biotechnology company. From 2001 to 2005, he served
as the Associate Vice President of Business Development at ImClone Systems, Inc.(now Eli Lilly and Company) a biotechnology company focused on antibody therapeutics. As the founder and in his role as Chief Scientific Officer at MTEM, he led the invention of technology underlying MTEM’s platform technology and what constitutes the whole of MTEM’s current lead and preclinical pipeline candidates. Eric Poma received his Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology and B.A. in Biology and from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his M.B.A. from New York University.
