Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> September 13, 2002

Bassil Dahiyat – Xencor

BASSIL I. DAHIYAT co-founded Xencor_ and has been President and Chief Executive Officer and a director since August 1997. Prior to founding Xencor, Dr. Dahiyat was a graduate student at Caltech, where he developed the biophysical models and protein design tools that form the basis of Xencor's biotherapeutics platform. Dr. Dahiyat holds a PhD in Chemistry from Caltech and BS and MSE degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. He has co-authored numerous papers in the fields of protein design and drug delivery, and has received scientific awards from the American Chemical Society, the Controlled Release Society, the Protein Society and Caltech. Profile
TWST: Could we start out with a quick overview of Xencor, how you see

the company today?

Mr. Dahiyat: We are discovering novel therapeutic molecules for the

treatment of disease. We have been