Bob is President, CSO and Co-Founder of Accent Therapeutics, board director at Disarm Therapeutics, and President of Ki Consultant, LLC. He was formerly President of Research and CSO of Epizyme and before that, VP of Cancer Biology at GlaxoSmithKline. He has contributed to drug discovery and development efforts leading to 18 investigational new drugs entering human clinical trials. Bob has authored more than 200 scientific publications, 5 books, and holds 13 issued U.S. patents. In 2016 he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Bob received his doctorate in chemistry from Princeton University and did postdoctoral studies as the Chaim Weizmann Fellow at the California Institute of Technology.