Tara Arvedson

Tara is Chief Scientific Officer at Hexagon Bio. She previously served as Hexagon’s Senior Vice President, Research. Prior to joining Hexagon, Tara was an Executive Director of Oncology Research at Amgen where she led small molecule and large molecule programs in Oncology, Immuno-Oncology, Inflammation and Hematology. Notable accomplishments include initiation of Amgen’s KRAS G12C-targeting effort which resulted in the first approved KRAS targeting molecule, LUMAKRAS (sotorasib), and leadership of Amgen’s bispecific T cell engager platform, which resulted in several current clinical candidates.

Tara received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the California Institute of Technology and was a Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, San Diego.