Thomas A. Keating

SVP - Head of Research at Pretzel Therapeutics

Greater Boston

About

Experience

  • Pretzel Therapeutics (Waltham, Massachusetts, United States)
    • SVP - Head of Research
      2024 - Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

    • SVP - Head of Biology
      2023 - 2024 · 1 yr

  • Senior Director, Drug Discovery at Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc.
    2020 - 2023 · 3 yrs

  • Consultant - Biology at Pretzel Therapeutics
    2021 - 2022 · 1 yr

  • ImmunoGen, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts, United States)
    • Senior Director of Biochemistry
      2016 - 2019 · 3 yrs

      Department head for antibody-drug conjugations targeting cancer. Leading scientists, projects, and portfolio in the ADC field: - Antibody-drug conjugations, analysis, and characterization - New linker technology, including site-specific conjugations and novel payloads - Internal drug discovery projects - Partnered and collaborative discovery projects

    • Director of Biochemistry
      2014 - 2016 · 2 yrs

  • AstraZeneca (Waltham, Massachusetts, United States)
    • Principal Scientist I
      2007 - 2014 · 7 yrs

      Team leader for Infection Biophysics group and for In Vitro Virology. Project leader for antibiotic drug discovery: led thymidylate kinase project from target ID to late lead optimization. Project management: supporting and writing NDA filing for AVYCAZ (ceftazidime-avibactam, Phase III) by contracting and managing internal and external scientific studies. Led “line-of-sight” team in developing clinical, regulatory, and commercial cases for Infection early development projects. Function lead for global data processing and storage initiatives. Externalization: managing collaborative discovery projects (BioFocus, UK, and ETC, Singapore), and CRO scientists for internal projects. Due diligence team for Infection external acquisitions. Bioscience lead generation: led multidisciplinary group in developing new target-based screening strategies through assay development and screening. Core member Infection Lead Generation, responsible for new projects, strategy, and pipeline delivery. Biochemical contributions to early and late-stage discovery projects: chemical and kinetic enzyme reaction mechanisms, protein biophysical characterization (ITC), competitive binding assays, high-throughput screening assay development and delivery, project database and cascade management.

    • Senior Scientist
      2005 - 2007 · 2 yrs

    • Scientist
      2001 - 2005 · 4 yrs