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Edgardo Baracchini, Ph.D.
Chief Business Officer
Dr. Baracchini joined Xencor as chief business officer in January 2010. He has more than 15 years of experience in structuring and negotiating research and development partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, and in-licensing agreements. To date, Dr. Baracchini has negotiated more than 60 business transactions with multinational and Asian pharmaceutical firms, biotechnology companies and leading universities.
Most recently, he served as senior vice president of business development at Metabasis Therapeutics until its merger with Ligand Pharmaceuticals in 2009. Prior to joining Metabasis, Dr. Baracchini was vice president of business development at Elitra Pharmaceuticals, and the director of business development at Agouron Pharmaceuticals until its acquisition by Warner-Lambert in 1999. Prior to that, he was assistant director of business development at Isis Pharmaceuticals.
Dr. Baracchini holds a Ph.D. in molecular and cell biology from the University of Texas at Dallas and conducted his postdoctoral research at UCSD and The Scripps Research Institute. He also earned an M.B.A. from the University of California, Irvine, and a B.S. in microbiology from the University of Notre Dame.