area unit. Prior to Takeda, he served as vice president, corporate development at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., or Millennium, a wholly owned subsidiary of Takeda, from June 1999 to 2008. Prior to Millennium, Dr. Curran held a business development role in the product planning and acquisition group at DuPont Merck Pharmaceuticals, a pharmaceutical company. Dr. Curran has served on the board of directors of Oak Hill Bio Corp., a clinical-stage rare disease therapeutics company, since February 2022. Dr. Curran received an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in chemistry from King’s College. We believe Dr. Curran is qualified to serve on our board of directors because of his diverse experience in the life sciences industry.
Yuan Xu, Ph.D. has served as a member of our board of directors since January 2022. Dr. Xu served as chief executive officer at Legend Biotech Corporation, or Legend Biotech, a biotechnology company, from March 2018 to August 2020. In this capacity, she played a leading role in Legend Biotech’s initial public offering, global clinical development of Legend Biotech’s autologous CAR T-cell therapy CARVYKTI® (ciltacabtagene autoleucel) and a strategic partnership with Janssen Biotech, Inc. Prior to joining Legend Biotech, she served as senior vice president at Merck & Co., Inc., or Merck, from August 2015 to August 2017, where she led discovery, preclinical and technical development, and manufacturing for Merck’s biologics and vaccines subdivision. Prior to that, Dr. Xu served as general manager and vice president of biologics at Gilead Sciences, or Gilead, from March 2014 to August 2015, where she led biologics and vaccines development and oversaw all operational aspects of Gilead’s Oceanside manufacturing facility as site head. Prior to Gilead, Dr. Xu served as vice president at Novartis and led several functions in the U.S. and Europe, including the biotherapeutics development unit focusing on innovative medicines. Earlier in her career, Dr. Xu held positions of increasing responsibility at Amgen Inc., Chiron, Inc., GlaxoSmithKline PLC and Genentech Inc. Dr. Xu currently serves as a member of the boards of directors of Fate Therapeutics, Inc. and Akero Therapeutics, Inc., as well as a scientific advisory board member and manufacturing advisory board member of National Resilience, Inc. (Resilience). Dr. Xu received a B.S. in biochemistry from Nanjing University, a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Maryland, and she completed her post-doctoral training in virology and gene therapy at the University of California, San Diego. We believe Dr. Xu is qualified to serve on our board of directors because of her experiences as a biopharmaceutical executive with more than 25 years of experience.
Class III Directors—Term Expiring at the 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders
Paul J. Clancy has served on our board of directors since July 2020. Mr. Clancy has more than 35 years of experience in financial management and strategic business planning. Mr. Clancy served as executive vice president, senior advisor of Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., or Alexion, a biopharmaceutical company, from November 2019 to July 2020, and as chief financial officer of Alexion from July 2017 to October 2019. Prior to Alexion, Mr. Clancy served as the executive vice president and chief financial officer at Biogen Inc. (formerly known as Biogen Idec), a biopharmaceutical company, or Biogen, since 2007. He also served as senior vice president of finance of Biogen Idec, with responsibilities for leading the treasury, tax, investor relations, and business planning groups. Prior to the merger of Biogen and Idec Pharmaceutical Corporation, Mr. Clancy was the vice president of portfolio management at Biogen. He joined Biogen in 2001 as vice president of U.S. marketing. Before Biogen, Mr. Clancy spent 13 years at PepsiCo Inc., a food and beverage company, serving in a variety of finance, strategy, and general management positions. Mr. Clancy serves as a member of the board of directors of Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Incyte Corporation, each a pharmaceutical company, and serves on the board of Exact Sciences Corporation, a cancer diagnostics company. Mr. Clancy is a Senior Visiting Lecturer of Finance at Cornell University’s Graduate School of Business. Mr. Clancy received his B.S. in business administration from Babson College and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School. We believe Mr. Clancy is qualified to serve on our board of directors because of his extensive financial and executive leadership experience at large multi-national companies.
Christina Rossi has served as a member of our board of directors since April 2021. Ms. Rossi currently serves as chief operating officer of Blueprint Medicines Corporation, or Blueprint, a biopharmaceutical company, and from October 2018 to April 2022, Ms. Rossi served as chief commercial officer of Blueprint. From January 2016 to October 2018, Ms. Rossi served as the Multiple Sclerosis business unit head, North America, at Sanofi Genzyme, or Sanofi, a biotechnology company. Previously, Ms. Rossi served as vice president, Multiple Sclerosis Sales at Sanofi from May 2014 to December 2015 and vice president, Multiple Sclerosis Patient and Provider Services at Sanofi from June 2012 to May 2014. Prior to joining Sanofi, Ms. Rossi served in various roles at Biogen, including head, commercial strategy for Eidetica Biopharma GmbH, Biogen’s biosimilar-focused venture, and U.S. brand leader for TYSABRI® (natalizumab). In addition, Ms. Rossi consulted in the healthcare practice at the Boston Consulting Group. Ms. Rossi holds a B.S. in biology, cum laude, from Duke University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. We believe Ms. Rossi is qualified to serve on our board