Avidity
W. Michael Flanagan, Chief Scientific and Technical Officer, joined Avidity Biosciences in January 2021. Dr. Flanagan has extensive experience developing multiple therapeutic modalities, including RNA therapeutics, antibody drug conjugates, and bispecific antibodies. Prior to joining Avidity, Dr. Flanagan served as Senior Director and Project Team Leader, Oncology and Immunology for Genentech, Inc., where he advanced programs through late-stage research to end of Phase 2 development. Prior to Genentech, he served in roles of increasing responsibility in the biology groups at Sunesis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Gilead Sciences, Inc., and Merck & Co., Inc. where he was Senior Director of RNA Sciences. Dr. Flanagan received a B.S. in Genetics from the University of California at Davis, a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the University of California at Irvine and was an American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellow at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University.
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Avidity Biosciences is pioneering a new class of precision medicines – antibody-siRNA conjugates (ASC™) – to deliver nucleic acid therapeutics against genetic drivers of disease. Our ASCs have drug-like properties similar to antibodies and antibody-drug conjugates. Importantly, their unique siRNA-based “payloads” permit selective targeting of disease-associated mRNAs against virtually any target of interest.