Andrea Itano

Andrea Itano is Senior Vice President, Head of Research at Evelo Biosciences. Prior to joining Evelo in 2017, Dr. Itano held multiple leadership roles at GlaxoSmithKline, including Vice President and Head of Tempero Discovery Unit. In that capacity she led a team of immunologists and chemists discovering and developing therapies for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. Dr. Itano has over 16 years of industry experience as a lead researcher at Amgen, Roche, and as Chief Scientific Officer of Tempero Pharmaceuticals. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and completed a Cancer Research Institute Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Minnesota.