Chris Bond

Chris Bond is Senior Vice President, Research & Early Development at Notch Therapeutics. Dr. Bond joined Notch with more than 18 years of experience working with biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies including Genentech, OncoMed, Juno Therapeutics, Celgene, and Kite. Dr. Bond has extensive experience in the discovery and development of adoptive cell therapies, monoclonal antibodies, and cellular engineering and genome editing. At Juno and at Kite, he led the discovery and preclinical development programs for CAR T and TCR cell therapies targeting solid and hematological tumors. At Kite, Dr. Bond led the development of allogeneic cell therapy platforms leveraging T cells from both donor-derived sources and induced pluripotent stem cells. As part of his work with Juno and Kite, Dr. Bond led R&D collaborations with genome editing companies including Editas Medicine and Sangamo Therapeutics. Prior to his work in adoptive cell therapy, Dr. Bond led monoclonal and bi-specific antibody discovery and engineering programs targeting cancer stem cell antigens at OncoMed Pharmaceuticals. He is an inventor on numerous patents and has published papers in the fields of protein structure and engineering, immunology, and oncology. Dr. Bond received a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Washington.