Person Details

Daniel J. Curran
Director

Daniel J. Curran, M.D., has served as a member of our board of directors since August 2025. He has more than 25 years of pharmaceutical experience in strategy, business development, project leadership and development roles. Since March 2024, Dr. Curran has served as a managing partner at Mountainfield Venture Partners, LLC, a company-creation firm. Further, since January 2025, he has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Timberline Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of transformational therapies for autoimmune diseases. Previously, between 2008 and 2023, Dr. Curran held roles of increasing responsibility at Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd., and most recently served as a senior vice president and the head of the rare genetics and hematology therapeutic area unit from January 2019 until December 2023. Prior to joining Takeda, he served as vice president, corporate development at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc, from 1999 to 2008. Prior to joining Millennium, Dr. Curran held a business development role in the product planning and acquisition group at DuPont Merck Pharmaceuticals, a pharmaceutical company. Dr. Curran previously served on the board of directors of Tome Biosciences, a private biotechnology company, and he currently serves on the Board of Directors of Xilio Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLO), a clinical stage biotechnology company discovering and developing tumor-activated, or masked, immuno-oncology (I-O) therapies with the goal of significantly improving outcomes for people living with cancer without the systemic side effects of current I-O treatments. Dr. Curran received an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.S. in chemistry from King’s College.