Dr. Saeho Chong brings more than 25 years of senior management experience, including more than a decade of strategic development in the pharmaceutical industry. He most recently served as Vice President, Early Development at Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, where he had a significant track record of success in R&D.

Previously, he served in roles of increasing responsibility and leadership at Bristol-Myers Squibb and Millennium (Takeda Oncology). He also held a prior position in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Office of Clinical Pharmacology and was a professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy at Seoul National University.

Dr. Seong H. Jang brings a deep expertise in clinical pharmacology, having held considerable positions of increasing responsibility at FDA for nearly 20 years. His experience includes leadership roles in the Division of Infectious Disease Pharmacology, Office of Clinical Pharmacology, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. He and his team contributed to the approval of an impressive portfolio of new drug products in multiple therapeutic areas, including transplant, special pathogen and anti-infectives.

He is widely recognized both internally and externally for his expertise and collaboration. Further, his contributions include serving as a cross disciplinary team leader in several NDA reviews and as an acting deputy division director for the Office of Study Integrity and Surveillance.

Wade Smith is responsible for Elevar’s capital acquisition and deployment, accounting/controlling, financial planning and analysis, business development and portfolio optimization, marketing, market access, commercial operations and pricing functions in addition to serving as the corporate secretary.

With more than 30 years of experience as a financial and commercial executive, Wade Smith joined Elevar Therapeutics in January 2022 after spending the previous decade at Viatris (formerly Mylan Pharmaceuticals), a global health care company working in a broad range of therapeutic areas. Most recently, Mr. Smith was Viatris’ head of U.S. institutional commercial/finance from 2017-2022, functioning as the COO and CFO for the $1 billion+ division.

Dr. Chris Galloway is an executive physician with more than 20 years of comprehensive medical practice and biotechnology experience. He joined Elevar in 2023 bringing extensive industry expertise spanning leadership roles in early and late-stage clinical development, medical affairs and business development in oncology and other therapeutic areas. His broad experiences include managing several successful Investigational New Drug Applications (IND), NDA, and BLA submissions to the FDA. In his role at Elevar, he oversees the global Clinical Development, Clinical Operations and Medical Affairs functions.

Dr. Richard Kim is a Service Chief of Medical Gastrointestinal Oncology and Senior Member in the Gastrointestinal Oncology Department at Moffitt Cancer Center. He is a Professor of Oncology at the University of South Florida College of Medicine. Before coming to Moffitt in 2010, Dr. Kim was an associate physician in gastrointestinal malignancies at the Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Center and a clinical assistant professor at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University.

Dr. Kim’s clinical and research interests focus on gastrointestinal tumors, in particular hepatobiliary and colon cancer. He is a principal investigator in multiple investigator-initiated and pharmaceutical phase I, II, III trials using immunotherapy and novel targeted agents.

Daneng Li, M.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Oncology & Therapeutics Research at City of Hope, specializing in treating gastrointestinal cancers. Dr. Li currently leads the liver tumors program and is also the co-director of the Neuroendocrine Tumor Program at City of Hope. Dr. Li’s clinical and academic research is focused on the multidisciplinary approach to treatment of patients with neuroendocrine tumors (NETs). He leads several clinical trials focused on improving outcomes for patients with NETs and works closely with scientists in the development of the next generation of novel therapeutics.

Rachna T. Shroff, MD, MS, FASCO, serves as associate director of Clinical Investigations and co-leader of the Gastrointestinal Clinical Research Team at the University of Arizona Cancer Center (UACC) and is a professor in the Department of Medicine, chief of the Division of Hematology and Oncology, medical director for the Oncology Service Line and associate dean for Clinical and Translational Research for the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson. Dr. Shroff joined UACC from MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. She is a clinical and translational investigator focused on developing novel therapies for pancreatic and hepatobiliary cancers and has led numerous clinical trials focusing on pancreaticobiliary tumors. She was the national principal investigator for SWOG 1815, which investigated a triplet chemotherapy regimen as a potential new standard of care for biliary cancers.

Mitesh J. Borad, M.D., is the Getz Family Research Professor and leads the Novel Therapeutics and Modalities Program at Mayo Clinic. Dr. Borad is an internationally recognized expert for treating patients with cholangiocarcinoma and has been extensively involved in developing novel cancer therapeutic platforms that leverage genomic medicine and gene/virus therapies, with a focus on tumors of the liver, bile ducts and pancreas. He has led the clinical development of novel anti-cancer agents in more than 50 first-in-human studies, including a multi-institutional team with collaborators at Mayo Clinic and the Translational Genomics Research Institute, which led to the discovery of fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGFR2) fusions in patients with intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, with the first demonstration of anti-tumor activity with FGFR inhibitors in this patient population. Subsequent work led to the FDA approval of three FGFR inhibitor cancer therapies.