Melissa Beelen

Melissa Beleen has served as our Vice President, Clinical Operations since April 2019. Prior to us, Ms. Beleen served in various roles at Epizyme, Inc., a public biotechnology company, most recently as Senior Director and Head of Clinical Operations from November 2015 to March 2019. Prior to Epizyme, Ms. Beelen served as the Senior Director, Clinical Strategy and Delivery of Quintiles and IMS Health, Inc. (now IQVIA Holdings Inc.), a public healthcare technology and clinical research company, from August 2010 to November 2015. Prior to that, Ms. Beelen served as a principle clinical research scientist and clinical program manager at GlaxoSmithKline plc from 1998 to 2010. From 1996 to 1998, Ms. Beleen was a contractor at Glaxo WellCome where she managed clinical trials. Prior to that, Ms. Beleen was a clinical research associate at ClinTrials Research, Inc. from 1994 to 1996. Ms. Beelen was an oncology nurse at the Duke University Medical Center in the division of Oncology & Bone Marrow Transplant from 1992 to 1994. Ms. Beelen holds a B.S. in Nursing, focused in oncology/hematology and bone marrow transplantation from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a B.S. in Zoology with a Minor in Genetics from North Carolina State University.