Jamie Swaney, Ph.D. is Vice President of Fibrosis and Translational Biology. Jamie has more than 15 years of drug development experience in tissue fibrosis/remodeling and inflammation. Prior to joining Lassen, Jamie was Executive Director and head of fibrosis at Metacrine, leading small molecule programs for NASH liver fibrosis. He began his career at Lpath Inc. where he helped advance lysophospholipid and sphingolipid antibodies for cardiac and pulmonary fibrosis and age-related macular degeneration. Following Lpath, Jamie spent several years at Amira Pharmaceuticals developing LPA receptor antagonists and autotaxin inhibitors for fibrosis.
Following the acquisition of Amira by Bristol Myers Squibb, Jamie led the in vivo fibrosis effort at BMS in San Diego as a member of BMS’s fibrosis discovery team. Jamie later joined Inception Sciences where he led in vivo and in vitro efforts to advance small molecule therapeutics in multiple fibroinflammatory disease indications. He has contributed to several patents and authored multiple peer-reviewed publications. Jamie received a Ph.D. in Molecular Pathology from the University of California at San Diego and holds an M.S. from the University of San Diego and a B.S. from the University of California at Santa Barbara.