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Carlos Garcia
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Carlos Garcia is the CTO of Rakuten Medical responsible for many critical functions of the company which include discovery research, process development, technology transfer, clinical and commercial manufacture, supply chain, quality assurance, and CMC regulatory, leading technical external partnerships. Carlos is also the site head of the San Diego, US office which is the center of excellence for Rakuten Medical research and development.
Carlos has over 20 years bio pharma experience in ADC, biologics and small molecules technologies. Carlos's background is in protein biochemistry, focused on structure biology with M.S. in Biochemistry and post-graduate work at the University of California, Irvine. Carlos has led research and development functions in small and large pharmaceutical companies. He has served as CMC lead for early and late-stage programs for Gilead, Pfizer, Cytokinetics, Arresto Therapeutics (acquired by Gilead) and Rinat Neurosciences (acquired by Pfizer).