Andrew R. Allen MD, PhD

Andrew Allen, M.D., Ph.D. co-founded Gritstone Oncology, Inc. and has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of our board of directors since August 2015. Prior to Gritstone, in April 2009, Dr. Allen co-founded Clovis Oncology, Inc., or Clovis, a public pharmaceutical development company, and served as its executive vice president of clinical and preclinical development and a chief medical officer from April 2009 to July 2015. Prior to that, he was a chief medical officer at Pharmion Corporation from 2006 to 2008.

Previously, Dr. Allen served in clinical development leadership roles at Chiron Corporation and Abbott Laboratories and worked at McKinsey & Company, where he advised life science companies on strategic issues. He currently serves on the board of directors of Epizyme, Inc., a publicly-traded biopharmaceutical company, and Sierra Oncology, Inc., a public biopharmaceutical company. Dr. Allen previously served on the board of directors of Cell Design Labs, a private biotechnology company, from November 2015 until its acquisition by Gilead Sciences, Inc. in December 2017. Dr. Allen qualified in medicine at Oxford University and received a Ph.D. in immunology from Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine in London.