Charles Hart

Charles P. Hart, PhD is an Adjunct Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and teaches classes on drug discovery and entrepreneurship in the Masters in Translational Medicine (MTM) and Inquiry Immersion programs. He is also the Executive Director of the Catalyst Program, UCSF's 'translational accelerator' focused on advancing UCSF discoveries to commercialization and patient benefit, and on the faculty of the Clinical and Translational...See more

Charles P. Hart, PhD is an Adjunct Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and teaches classes on drug discovery and entrepreneurship in the Masters in Translational Medicine (MTM) and Inquiry Immersion programs. He is also the Executive Director of the Catalyst Program, UCSF's 'translational accelerator' focused on advancing UCSF discoveries to commercialization and patient benefit, and on the faculty of the Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) and Center for Cellular Construction (CCC) at UCSF. He has been on the editorial board of SLAS Discovery (formerly the Journal of Biomolecular Screening) since 2003, and on the Scientific Advisory Board of Janux Therapeutics since 2017. From 2004 to 2017 he was at Threshold Pharmaceuticals and responsible for both in vitro and in vivo preclinical translational studies. He was also project leader for the global clinical development program for the hypoxia-targeted anticancer drug evofosfamide, a partnership with Merck KGaA. Prior to joining Threshold, Charles was Senior Director of Biology at Galileo Pharmaceuticals (2001 to 2004), Director of Drug Discovery at Signature Bioscience (2000 to 2001), a Research Unit Director at Affymax (1990 to 2000), and Cell Biologist at SRI International (1977 to 1981). Charles received his AB in cell biology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1977, an MS in developmental biology from Stanford University in 1980, a PhD in molecular biology and genetics from Yale University in 1987 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Université de Strasbourg, France in 1990. See less