Elisabeth has served as Vice President of Business Development since her promotion in November 2009. She has held positions of increasing responsibility in business development and alliance management since joining Cytokinetics in January 2000.
Her prior roles included responsibility for generating new business and managing collaborations at Acacia Biosciences and serving as the Associate Director of the University of California BioSTAR Project, a university-industry matching grants program.
She received an S.B. in Life Sciences from MIT and a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley.
