Carla Gauss

Carla Gauss, Ph.D., is a Senior Director, Medicinal Chemistry, Deerfield Discovery and Development, and joined the Firm in 2022. Prior to Deerfield, Dr. Gauss was a Senior Application Scientist, Medicinal Chemistry at Nanome. Before Nanome, she served as a Research Investigator at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where she worked for 11 years. Before this, Dr. Gauss held various positions as a scientist at Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Cara Therapeutics, Memory Pharmaceuticals and Exelixis. Dr. Gauss holds a B.S. in Chemistry and a B.A. in Biology from University of Virginia and a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from University of California at Irvine.