Our People

Kurt Gish has extensive experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. In June 2024, BioLoomics announced Kurt as their Chief Scientific Officer. Kurt is also currently serving as the CEO and Co-Founder of Trilo Therapeutics, a position they have held since 2021. Prior to this, they co-founded the company and served as the Chief Scientific Officer.

Before their time at Trilo Therapeutics, Gish worked at various organizations in leadership roles. Kurt spent five years at AbbVie as the Associate Director II of Discovery, leading the ADC Discovery group in developing antibody-drug conjugates for oncology. Prior to AbbVie, Gish worked at Abbott Biotherapeutics Corp. as an Associate Director of Discovery, managing a team and focusing on the development of ADCs for oncology.

Gish also held the position of Director of Research at Facet Biotech, where they managed a team and worked on the development of monoclonal antibody therapeutics for oncology. Kurt served as Director of Research at PDL BioPharma, managing a larger team and focusing on the development of monoclonal antibody therapeutics for oncology and autoimmune disease.

Before their leadership roles, Gish worked as a Senior Scientist at Eos Biotechnology, conducting genome-wide gene regulation studies for cancer-specific molecules. Kurt also worked at Affymetrix as a Scientist, focusing on gene regulation studies for cancer-specific genes. Gish began their career as a Postdoctoral Fellow at DNAX Research Institute, where they conducted novel gene discovery and gene regulation studies.

Throughout their career, Gish has accumulated expertise in the development of first-in-class antibody-drug conjugates and monoclonal antibody therapeutics for oncology.

Kurt Gish has a strong educational background in the field of biology. Kurt received their Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from UC Irvine in 1987. Kurt then went on to pursue further education and obtained their Ph.D. in Biology from Stanford University in 1994. Following their doctoral studies, Kurt Gish joined the DNAX Research Institute for a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Molecular Immunology, where they engaged in research and scholarly activities from 1994 to 1997.

Dr. Randi Isaacs is Chief Medical Officer at Werewolf Therapeutics. She was previously Executive Director and Clinical Site Head of Translational Clinical Oncology at Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research where she oversaw multiple clinical oncology programs and served as the clinical liaison for the Novartis CAR-T collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania, and was the clinical liaison for the business development and licensing team, where she was responsible for evaluation and due diligence of potential assets for license or acquisition. She was previously Director of Global Oncology at Schering Plough, Head of Oncology Biologics at Merck, and Associate Director of Clinical Research at Sandoz.

Before moving into industry, she held academic positions including Assistant Professor of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology division at the State University of New York Health Sciences Center, and Clinical Assistant Professor in Hematology/Oncology at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Her major research interests are in the area of novel therapeutic approaches in oncology, including biologic agents, molecularly targeted therapies, immunotherapy and CAR-T cells for the treatment of solid tumors and hematologic malignancies, as well as translational approaches for patient selection strategies and biomarker development.

Dr. Isaacs received her B.A. in chemistry from Wellesley College and her M.D. from Dartmouth Medical School. She spent one year in the MS program in epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health. She was a resident and postdoctoral fellow at UCSF, and a medical Hematology/Oncology Fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering.

Dr. Ravi Kiron is an experienced pharma/biotech/venture executive with decades of experience in discovery R&D, early to late stage clinical dev, IP, technology, BD, M&A, strategy, product commercialization, negotiating/executing key partnerships between academia, pharma & biotech, leveraging his extensive global networks in Cardiovascular, Oncology, Neuroscience, Wound Healing, AI, Microbiome, Drug Delivery, Diagnostics.

He was faculty, Cornell Univ Med College, University of Rhode Island, with operational, executive management roles at pharma: Pfizer – Cardiovascular R&D (Hypertension, CHF, Ischemia), Oncology clin dev (TarcevaÒ NSCLC), Strategic BD, M&A (WLA, PHA, biotech acquisitions); J&J/ALZA – Drug Delivery Innovation/Licensing; Merck KGaA/EMD Serono Silicon Valley Innovation Hub/Strategic Innovation investing in game changing technologies (AI, Microbiome, Organoids, Fertility, Electroceuticals, Longevity/Aging).

Dr. Kiron’s biotech tenure spans BD, IPO, pharma/university collaborations, fund raising (Aduro, KineMed, Amarantus, Arrien), consulting several dozen global biotech, pharma companies; cofounded 4 startups (C2N Dx, Navya, PKBio, iRetainRx); Corporate & Private Venture teams – SRI Ventures, Shang Pharma Innovation, Celtic Pharma, with biotech Board Advisory (Cytovia, Spanios, DataJoint, ARIZBio), University/Industry non-profit boards (UCSD, UCD, NCI, Pantheon, BIO, BTS).

​Dr. Kiron earned BS Chemistry, MS Microbiology from University of Mumbai, India; PhD Biochemistry from Indian Institute of Science, India; MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, USA.

Dr. Guru Muralimohan is a team Leader with a strong scientific background and broad commercial experience in global strategic marketing, new product planning, business development & licensing (BD&L), and market access.

He is currently Executive Director at Bayer Pharmaceuticals for Oncology Early Pipeline Commercialization team. In addition to his portfolio responsibilities, has is also the commercial lead for BD&L efforts and collaborates effectively with Research, Early Clinical Development, Regulatory, Marketing and Market Access on several cross-functional initiatives.

Prior to Bayer, Guru spent nine years at Boehringer Ingelheim where he worked in US and Global Marketing, US Market Access, and US Strategy & Operations roles. He also has management consulting experience where he led several projects for pharmaceutical, biotech and private equity companies on venture investing, new product planning, search & evaluation and business development & licensing.

Guru started his career at Xcellerex Inc, a Boston biotech backed by venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins and VantagePoint. In that role he made significant contributions to increase shareholder value eventually leading to acquisition by GE Healthcare.

Guru holds a PhD in Immunology from University of Connecticut Health Center where he explored the role of adaptive and innate immune system on tumor biology. He also holds an MBA from University of Connecticut, School of Business.

Dr. Parkinson has considerable scientific, medical, development, regulatory, business and management experience in the biopharmaceutical and healthcare industry. He has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of ESSA Pharma Inc. (NASDAQ: EPIX) since January 2016, and as Director of the company since June 2015. Prior to joining ESSA, he had been a Venture Partner at New Enterprise Associates, Inc.

From 2007 until 2012, Dr. Parkinson served as President and CEO of Nodality, Inc., a biotechnology company focused on the biological characterization of signaling pathways in patients with malignancy.

Until October 2007, he was SVP, Oncology Research and Development at Biogen Idec, where he oversaw all oncology discovery research efforts and the development of the oncology pipeline. Previously he had served as VP, Oncology Development, at Amgen and VP, Global Clinical Oncology Development, at Novartis. In those roles, he oversaw the successful clinical development of a series of cancer therapeutics, including Gleevec, Zometa, Femara, and Vectibix.

Dr. Parkinson worked at the National Cancer Institute from 1990 to 1997, serving as Chief of the Investigational Drug Branch and then as Acting Associate Director of the Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program (CTEP).

He is a past Chairman of the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) Biologics Advisory Committee, a past member of the FDA Science Board, and is a recipient of the FDA’s Cody Medal.

He is a past editor of the Journal of Immunotherapy and past president of the Society of Biological Therapy (now the Society for the Immunotherapy of Cancer, SITC). He has served on the National Cancer Policy Forum of the Institute of Medicine and is a past co-chair of the Cancer Steering Committee of the NIH Foundation Biomarkers Consortium.

A past Board Director of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), he currently serves as a Board Director for the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation and chairs their Translational Research Committee. He served as Chairperson of the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) Finance and Audit Committee for 15 years, is a previous elected Board Director of AACR, and currently chairs the Project GENIE Oversight Committee for AACR.

Dr. Parkinson was a Director of Facet Biotech, Inc., until the acquisition by Abbott Pharmaceuticals, and was a Director of Ambit Biosciences until the acquisition by Daiichi Sankyo. He has also previously served as a Director at Threshold Pharmaceuticals, Cerulean Pharmaceuticals (now DARE, Inc), and Tocagen, Inc (now Forte, Inc).

In addition to the ESSA board he currently serves as Director on the boards of 3SBio Inc (1530.HK) and CTI Biopharma, Inc (CTIC, NASDAQ). He also serves on the board of the private company Angiocrine Biosciences, and is a Co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Refuge Biotechnologies, Inc., also a private company.

He has held academic positions both at Tufts and at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications.