Frank McCormick Biography and Net Worth

Frank McCormick, Ph.D. has served as a member of our Board of Directors since February 2023. He currently also serves as our Chairman of Oncology and has held this position since April 2019. He is also a Professor in the University of California, San Francisco (“UCSF”) Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, a multidisciplinary research and medical care organization, and has been a UCSF faculty member since 1997. Dr. McCormick has held the positions of Director of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and served as Associate Dean of the UCSF School of Medicine from 1997 to 2014. Prior to joining the UCSF faculty, Dr. McCormick pursued cancer-related work with several biotechnology firms, including Cetus Corporation as Director of Molecular Biology from 1981 to 1990 and Vice President of Research from 1990 to 1991, and Chiron Corporation as Vice President of Research from 1991 to 1992. In 1992, Dr. McCormick founded Onyx Pharmaceuticals and served as its Chief Scientific Officer until 1996. Dr. McCormick is a Fellow of the Royal Society, an institution dedicated to science, since 1996, a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2014 and has served as President, 2012 to 2013, for the American Association for Cancer Research. Since 2013, Dr. McCormick has led the National Cancer Institute’s Ras Initiative at the Frederick National Laboratories for Cancer Research overseeing the national effort to develop therapies against Ras-driven cancers. Dr. McCormick also served as a member of the board of directors of Olema Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: OLMA) from December 2014 to April 2021, and Aduro Biotech, Inc. (Nasdaq: KDNY) from 2010 to February 2019. Dr. McCormick received his B.Sc. in biochemistry from the University of Birmingham and his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Cambridge and held postdoctoral fellowships in the U.S. at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and in London at the Imperial Cancer. Dr. McCormick’s qualifications to serve on our Board of Directors include his extensive scientific background, particularly in the field of oncology.