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Director, Clinical Development
GSK, Collegeville, PA, USA
Collegeville, Pennsylvania, United States
Amanda Sheets, PhD, is a clinical development director at GSK (Upper Providence, PA). In this role, she hopes to bring novel therapeutic agents in the Infectious Disease portfolio to market to address patients’ unmet medical needs. Prior to GSK, she worked at Melinta Therapeutics (formerly Cempra Inc.) on the late-stage development of both oral and IV antibacterial drugs for the treatment of community-acquired bacterial pneumonia, anthrax, tularemia, uncomplicated gonorrhea, uncomplicated urinary tract infections, acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections, and bone and joint infections. She obtained her PhD degree in molecular genetics and microbiology at Duke University (Durham, NC) in the laboratory of Joe St. Geme, III, MD, and completed her postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Peggy A. Cotter, PhD at University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC).
Disclosure(s): GSK: Employee, Stocks/Bonds (Public Company)