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About Us | Management Team

James Bianco, M.D.

President & Chief Executive Officer

James Bianco, M.D. is a 30-year veteran of the biopharmaceutical industry. In 1991, Dr. Bianco founded CTI Biopharma, Inc. and from 1992 to 2016 was the Chief Executive Officer of CTI Biopharma. During his tenure at CTI Biopharma, Dr. Bianco was responsible for strategic portfolio development and identifying, acquiring, licensing, purchasing, or acquiring through international merger and acquisition, five drug candidates, four of which have since been approved by the FDA and with three receiving accelerated or conditional regulatory approval in the U.S. and/or E.U. Dr. Bianco was responsible for the purchase of pacritinib, a novel Jak2 inhibitor which was partnered with Baxalta for $60 million upfront and $120 million committed Phase 3 clinical trial related expenses. Dr. Bianco designed and implemented the pacritinib PERSIST-2 phase 3 trial which was the basis for its accelerated approval and the subsequent acquisition of CTI Biopharma by SOBI for $1.75 billion.

Dr. Bianco earned his M.D. from the Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine and completed his residency and chief residency at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. He completed his fellowship in Hematology/Oncology at the University of Washington/Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC) where he was appointed Assistant Professor of Medicine, Assistant Member FHCRC and Director of the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at a “Hutch” affiliate (SVAMC). He is the recipient of numerous awards including the National Organization of Rare Disease award for the development of Trisenox.

Dan Dearborn, CPA

Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Dearborn is a CPA with over 25 years of finance experience exclusively with health care and biotechnology companies. Prior to Morphogenesis, from 2015 to 2017, Mr. Dearborn was Chief Financial Officer at MYMD Pharmaceuticals, an emerging biotechnology firm. Mr. Dearborn is an alumnus of Loyola University in Maryland and joined Ernst & Young early in his career. He was with Pharmerica, a long-term care pharmaceutical company, for fifteen years and advanced quickly to a Director role. He then moved to BioDelivery Sciences International as Controller. During his time at BioDelivery Sciences, the company signed two very large commercial partnership agreements and was listed on Nasdaq.

Mr. Dearborn later joined Welldyne, Inc. as its Chief Financial Officer. Welldyne is a pharmacy benefit manager that also had several related health care businesses and employed associates in Florida and Colorado. During his time with Welldyne, the company was sold to Carlyle, one of the largest private equity firms.

Peter O’Neill, MBA

Vice President, Clinical Operations

Mr. O’Neill has over 25 years of clinical trial experience, having led large and small Clinical Operations teams at sponsors (Biotech/Pharma), CROs and research hospitals. As a former cancer patient and survivor of malignant melanoma, Mr. O’Neill is passionate about developing advanced immunotherapies for patients with cancer and other debilitating diseases and is focused on innovative strategies to enhance the clinical trial experience for patients and their care teams. He joins TuHURA having most recently served as Senior Director, Clinical Operations at Cellectis, where he was responsible for clinical trial programs of allogeneic “off-the-shelf” gene-edited CAR T-cell products for the treatment of relapsed or refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia and multiple myeloma. Prior to Cellectis, he served in multiple roles, including most recently as Senior Director, Clinical Operations at Incyte, where he helped lead the pivotal trials and subsequent supporting trials that resulted in the marketing approval and label expansion of Jakafi® (ruxolitinib), Incyte’s first approved therapy and the first JAK inhibitor approved by FDA. He also served as the Innovation Lead for Incyte’s Clinical Development Operations organization. Additional appointments over the course of his career include roles at Sanofi, AAI Pharma, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Mr. O’Neill holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Fairfield University and a Master of Business Administration in Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing from St. Jospeh’s University – Haub School of Business. He has since received a Leadership & Management Certificate from The Wharton School, and Certificates in Disruptive Strategy and Digital Health from Harvard Business School. Additionally, he was awarded “Emerging Pharma Leader” by Pharmaceutical Executive as a special recognition to rising leaders in the life sciences industry (May 2020 edition of Pharmaceutical Executive magazine).

Adeana Dorsey

Vice President, Regulatory Affairs – CMC

Adeana Dorsey, RAC, CSSGB, is an industry veteran with over 23 years of Regulatory Affairs (CMC), quality assurance, and project management experience with biologics/biosimilar, pharmaceuticals, combination products (PMOA drug, biologic, and medical device), gene/cellular therapies, and medical devices. Adeana has a breadth of experience with the development of global CMC regulatory strategy and leading and executing regulatory submissions in various phases of development. Prior to joining TuHURA, Adeana served as VP, Regulatory Affairs, CMC at Akouos from 2022-2023. Earlier, while at Clinipace, Adeana served as Director, Regulatory and Strategy Development CMC before shifting to Executive Director, Regulatory and Strategic Development, CMC throughout 2019-2022. Prior to that, Adeana served as Manager of Chemistry, Manufacturing and Controls before transitioning to Director of Chemistry, Manufacturing and Controls with Cardinal Health Regulatory Services from 2015-2018.

Adeana holds a BS in Biology from Marshall University.

Michael Krsulich

Head of Quality Assurance

Mr. Krsulich has established diverse international expertise supporting progression of therapies from clinical development through commercialization and leading GxP Quality oversight. Mr. Krsulich joins TuHURA having most recently served as Vice President, Global Quality Assurance (CRO) at Reaction Biology Corporation, an industry-leading provider of drug discovery and development services where he led the global quality team ensuring compliance, designed and implemented a global quality management strategy for all sites across the US and EU and implemented a global quality management system and risk management program. Prior to that, Mr. Krsulich served as Senior Director, GxP Quality Assurance (Gene Therapy) at Renovacor, Inc. (acquired by Rocket Pharmaceuticals). Other career appointments include Senior Director, Quality Assurance GMP (small molecule) at Galera Therapeutics, Inc.; Associate Director, R&D Quality Assurance (small / large molecule, biosimilars) at Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries, where he led the GMP QA activities for Teva’s first commercially approved biologic (AJOVY® – fremanezumab-vfrm); Senior Manager, Development Quality Assurance (small/large molecule, ADC) at Eisai, Inc.; Quality Site Lead (large molecule) at OPK Biotech, LLC.; and Quality Assurance Specialist Team Leader (medical device, biomaterials) at Global Medical, Inc.

Mr. Krsulich holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh. He is also a member of the American Society for Quality.

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James Bianco, M.D.

President & Chief Executive Officer

James Bianco, M.D. is a 30-year veteran of the biopharmaceutical industry. In 1991, Dr. Bianco founded CTI Biopharma, Inc. and from 1992 to 2016 was the Chief Executive Officer of CTI Biopharma. During his tenure at CTI Biopharma, Dr. Bianco was responsible for strategic portfolio development and identifying, acquiring, licensing, purchasing, or acquiring through international merger and acquisition, five drug candidates, four of which have since been approved by the FDA and with three receiving accelerated or conditional regulatory approval in the U.S. and/or E.U. Dr. Bianco was responsible for the purchase of pacritinib, a novel Jak2 inhibitor which was partnered with Baxalta for $60 million upfront and $120 million committed Phase 3 clinical trial related expenses. Dr. Bianco designed and implemented the pacritinib PERSIST-2 phase 3 trial which was the basis for its accelerated approval and the subsequent acquisition of CTI Biopharma by SOBI for $1.75 billion.

Dr. Bianco earned his M.D. from the Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine and completed his residency and chief residency at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. He completed his fellowship in Hematology/Oncology at the University of Washington/Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC) where he was appointed Assistant Professor of Medicine, Assistant Member FHCRC and Director of the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at a “Hutch” affiliate (SVAMC). He is the recipient of numerous awards including the National Organization of Rare Disease award for the development of Trisenox.

Dan Dearborn, CPA

Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Dearborn is a CPA with over 25 years of finance experience exclusively with health care and biotechnology companies. Prior to Morphogenesis, from 2015 to 2017, Mr. Dearborn was Chief Financial Officer at MYMD Pharmaceuticals, an emerging biotechnology firm. Mr. Dearborn is an alumnus of Loyola University in Maryland and joined Ernst & Young early in his career. He was with Pharmerica, a long-term care pharmaceutical company, for fifteen years and advanced quickly to a Director role. He then moved to BioDelivery Sciences International as Controller. During his time at BioDelivery Sciences, the company signed two very large commercial partnership agreements and was listed on Nasdaq.

Mr. Dearborn later joined Welldyne, Inc. as its Chief Financial Officer. Welldyne is a pharmacy benefit manager that also had several related health care businesses and employed associates in Florida and Colorado. During his time with Welldyne, the company was sold to Carlyle, one of the largest private equity firms.

Suzanne Parker, Ph.D.

Vice President, Clinical Operations and Study Management

Suzanne Parker is a pharmaceutical industry professional with over 25 years of experience leading teams through the various stages of the clinical development process from study concept, enrollment, reporting and health authority submissions in major global and emerging markets. Suzanne has deep experience in conducting clinical trials with biopharmaceuticals, pharmaceuticals, and cell therapies in the local US and global markets. Prior to joining TuHURA, Suzanne served as Sr. Director of Clinical Operations at MacroGenics in 2022. Earlier, Suzanne was Sr. Global Clinical Operations Program Direction at Shanghai Pharma Biopharmaceuticals from 2021-2022. Over the course of her career, Suzanne held various leadership positions and throughout her tenure at Astra Zeneca Suzanne served as Global Clinical Operations Director from 2017-2020 before pivoting to Sr. Global Clinical Operations Program Director from 2020-2021. While at Novartis, from 2005-2008 Suzanne served as Senior Clinical Research Associate before transitioning to Regional Associate Director and Director of Field Monitoring Operations from 2008-2017.

Suzanne holds a BS in Biology with a minor in Psychology from Nebraska Wesleyan University and is currently working on her master’s in health care at George Washington University.

Adeana Dorsey

Vice President, Regulatory Affairs – CMC

Adeana Dorsey, RAC, CSSGB, is an industry veteran with over 23 years of Regulatory Affairs (CMC), quality assurance, and project management experience with biologics/biosimilar, pharmaceuticals, combination products (PMOA drug, biologic, and medical device), gene/cellular therapies, and medical devices. Adeana has a breadth of experience with the development of global CMC regulatory strategy and leading and executing regulatory submissions in various phases of development. Prior to joining TuHURA, Adeana served as VP, Regulatory Affairs, CMC at Akouos from 2022-2023. Earlier, while at Clinipace, Adeana served as Director, Regulatory and Strategy Development CMC before shifting to Executive Director, Regulatory and Strategic Development, CMC throughout 2019-2022. Prior to that, Adeana served as Manager of Chemistry, Manufacturing and Controls before transitioning to Director of Chemistry, Manufacturing and Controls with Cardinal Health Regulatory Services from 2015-2018.

Adeana holds a BS in Biology from Marshall University.

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