Founding Advisory Board Member Raquel Izumi, PhD, has been the Chief Operations Officer and President of Vincerx and a member of the Vincerx board of directors since March 2019. Before that, Dr Izumi co-founded Acerta Pharma and served as its executive vice president of clinical development from February 2013 to May 2020.  Dr Izumi also co-founded Aspire Therapeutics LLC and served as its chief scientific officer from June 2011 to February 2013. Before founding Aspire Therapeutics, Dr Izumi served as senior director of clinical development at Pharmacyclics LLC, a biopharmaceutical company, where she worked on designing and implementing seven clinical studies across various hematologic malignancies (including three studies that garnered breakthrough therapy designation) for the first BTK inhibitor (IMBRUVICA®) to enter clinical trials.  She began her research career at Amgen, where she held positions of increasing responsibility and participated in a successful BLA filing and approval for ARANESP®.   Dr Izumi was a Howard Hughes Predoctoral Fellow at the UCLA where she obtained a PhD in microbiology and immunology. She received honors and distinction for her BA in biological sciences from UCSB.