Michael Rabson, Ph.D.

Michael joined us in March 2008 as our Senior Vice President, Business Development & Legal Affairs and General Counsel.

Prior to Cytokinetics he served as General Counsel and Senior Vice President at Maxygen. Before Maxygen, Michael was a member of the law firm, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Prior to that time, Michael served as a patent examiner with a particular focus to biotechnology and genetic engineering at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Dr. Rabson received a B.S. in Biological Sciences from Cornell University, a Ph.D. in infectious disease epidemiology from Yale University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. In addition, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health.