About me
Nick Giafis is currently Vice President and Head of Medical Affairs at Kura Oncology. He has over 18 years of experience working in medical affairs roles of progressive responsibility. Previously, he worked at Kronos Bio where he created and led the medical organization. Before Kronos, Nick was Vice President of Medical Affairs at Arcus Biosciences, where he successfully built a new global medical affairs organization to support multiple clinical stage oncology assets. Prior to Arcus, Nick worked at Pharmacyclics as Head of Medical Strategy and Evidence Generation for Imbruvica. Previously, he was Scientific Director in US Medical Affairs at AbbVie, where he led Venclexta launch planning and execution in hematologic malignancies. Before joining AbbVie, Nick held positions of increasing responsibility on the Medical Affairs teams at Abbott Molecular and Bristol-Myers Squibb.
Prior to joining the industry, Nick earned his Ph.D. from Northwestern University and completed his B.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.