Stephanie joined the New Ventures team at J&J’s California Innovation Center in 2014. She brings expertise in drug discovery and early clinical development, as well as business development and alliance management.

Previously, Stephanie was at the University of California, San Francisco UCSF where she led business development efforts for the campus and built and led a one of the first formal alliance management teams found in an academic setting. Prior to this, Stephanie was Program Director for the UCSF Sandler Center for Drug Discovery and also helped in the establishment and oversight of the UCSF Grand Multiple Myeloma Translational Initiative (GMMTI). Prior to joining UCSF, Dr. Robertson worked for over a decade at Exelixis, Inc. During her tenure at Exelixis the company grew from early start-up to over 700 employees. She grew from leading a computational biology team to serving as scientific project leader for drug discovery programs in cancer, cardiovascular disease and metabolism, project manager for early oncology clinical programs and leading alliance management for several programmatic collaborations with large pharma.

She earned an undergraduate degree in chemistry (Honors) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley.