Company

Board of Directors

Bassil Dahiyat
Director

Dr. Bassil Dahiyat co-founded Xencor in 1997 to commercially leverage his and Dr. Stephen Mayo's seminal work at Caltech on proteins and the development of Protein Design Automation™ technology. Under Dr. Dahiyat's leadership, Xencor has applied PDA to develop a pipeline of proprietary protein and antibody drug candidates, both internally and in partnership with leading biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. He drives the company's fundraising efforts, and has secured more than $85 million in financing to date. Dr. Dahiyat also leads the company's scientific programs and has been instrumental in growing the company's broad intellectual property portfolio. He is an inventor on 60 patents and patent applications, including Xencor's Protein Design Automation® platform, and a co-author of 18 scientific papers. In 2005, Dr. Dahiyat was recognized as a technology pioneer by the World Economic Forum. Additionally, Dr. Dahiyat was named one of 2003's Top 100 Young Innovators by MIT's Technology Review magazine for his work on protein design and its development for therapeutic applications and has received awards from the American Chemical Society, the Controlled Release Society and Caltech. Dr. Dahiyat holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from Caltech and B.S. and M.S.E. degrees in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins University.