Company: ERAS
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-103868
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Company: Erasca, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: DEF 14A
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 in July 2020, Dr. Varney served in progressing roles at Genentech, Inc., most recently as Executive Vice President and Head of Research and Early Development, as well as a member of the Corporate Executive Committee of Roche, Genentech’s parent company. Prior to Genentech, from 1987 to 2005 Dr. Varney served as Head of Research at Agouron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biotechnology company later acquired by Pfizer, Inc. From January 2021 until July 2023, Dr. Varney served on the board of directors of Pardes Biosciences, Inc., a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company focused on the treatment and prevention of viral diseases. Dr. Varney served on the board of directors of Foundation Medicine, Inc. (acquired by Roche Holdings AG) from 2015 until March 2018. Dr. Varney was an American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University, and holds a B.S. in chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Ph.D. in synthetic organic chemistry from the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Varney’s extensive executive leadership experience in the biopharmaceutical industry and his extensive drug discovery and development expertise contributed to our Board’s conclusion that he should serve as a director of our Company.

Class III directors (terms to expire at the 2027 annual meeting)

Jean I. Liu, J.D. has served on our Board since April 2022. Ms. Liu was the Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary of Seagen Inc., a publicly traded, global, multi product biotechnology company, from 2014 until Seagen’s acquisition by Pfizer in December 2023. Prior to that, she served as Vice President and General Counsel of Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc., a publicly traded biotechnology company, from November 2011 to November 2014. From 1998 to 2011, she was with Durect Corporation, a publicly traded biotechnology company, where she served in positions of increasing responsibility, including most recently Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary. Prior to Durect, Ms. Liu was in private practice at the law firms of Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro (now Pillsbury Winthrop) and Venture Law Group in the areas of intellectual property litigation and corporate transactions. Ms. Liu has served on the board of directors of Connect Biopharma Holdings Limited, a publicly traded biotechnology company developing treatments for T cell-driven inflammatory