Company: ACHV
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-059297
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Company: ACHIEVE LIFE SCIENCES, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: DEF 14A
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 as President and Chief Executive Officer of the privately held biotechnology company Artizan Biosciences, Inc. from July 2021 until August of 2023. Prior to that, Dr. Martell was at Kura Oncology, Inc., a public, clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, where she served in varied roles first as VP, Clinical Development, Acting Chief Medical Officer, and Senior Scientific Advisor from October 2017 until December 2021. She has served as the Acting Chief Medical Officer of a number of privately held early-stage biotechnology companies, including Nobias Therapeutics, Inc. from August 2020 to August 2021 and August 2023 to present, for Verseau Therapeutics, Inc. from October 2020 to September 2021, and most recently at Glycyx Therapeutics, Inc. starting in August 2023. Additionally, Dr. Martell served as Chief Medical Officer of RRD International, Inc., a privately held boutique Contract Research Organization from April 2018 to January 2020. From 2015 to 2017, Dr. Martell served as Senior Vice President, New Product Development and Chief Medical Officer at Juniper Pharmaceuticals, a publicly traded specialty pharmaceuticals company. Prior to that, Dr. Martell held leadership roles of increasing responsibility at Pfizer, Inc., a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company from 2005 to 2011. Dr. Martell currently serves as an independent director of Aligos Therapeutics, Inc. and Delcath Systems, Inc. each a publicly traded biotechnology company, and previously served as a director of POINT Biopharma Global, Inc, a cancer treatment biotechnology company, from June 2023 until its acquisition by Eili Lilly and Company, a pharmaceutical company, in December 2023 and Ayala Pharmaceuticals, Inc., acquired by Immunome, Inc. in February 2024. Dr. Martell holds a B.S. in microbiology from Cornell University, an M.A. in molecular immunology from Boston University and an M.D. from the Chicago Medical School. She completed her internship and residency in internal medicine and was an internal medicine chief resident and RWJ Faculty Clinical Scholar at Yale University. Dr. Martell is board certified in both internal and addiction medicine. Dr. Martell was a Teaching Attending and Clinical Associate Professor at Yale from 2005 to 2020 and has continued her engagement at Yale as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Yale Ventures since 2017.