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Collaborative and outcome-based biopharmaceutical servant-leader providing 20+ years of clinical operations experience. Passionately advancing the mission of improving patients’ lives through timely and efficient execution of clinical trials. Adept at building and managing cross-functional teams comprising internal and/or external partners and CROs to meet the dynamic business needs of virtual start-ups to leading life science companies.

Arla holds an MSc in Interdisciplinary Oncology and is both CCRP and PMP certified. She has worked in healthcare and oncology for over 15 years, with the last 9 years spent focused on clinical research operations at UCSF’s NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Chief Medical Officer at ASC Therapeutics, a biopharma company focusing on gene editing and gene therapy for Hemophilia A and MSUD, and allogeneic cell therapy for Graft-vs-Host Disease in hematologic malignancies. Holding a tenured Professorship of Immunology at the University of Leon, Spain. Received PhD from the University of Wuerzburg, Germany and MD from the University of Salamanca, Spain
Author and co-author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications, including Nature, Lancet, Journal of Immunology and Journal of Experimental Medicine, books and medical articles and member of several scientific and medical societies.