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Arvin Akoopie
Associate Director of Therapeutics,
Aureka Bio
Arvin Akoopie is an associate director of therapeutics at Aureka Biotechnologies. His experiences in rapid vaccine prototyping, immune repertoire analysis, and antibody engineering provide a toolkit for delivering the next generation of therapeutics. Previously, he worked at Gritstone Bio as well as Alivamab Biologics. He earned his PhD from UC San Diego in 2019, with a dissertation on the in vitro selection of a novel class of ribozymes.