About the Speaker
Kevin Maresca, PH.D.
Senior Director and Head of PET & Molecular Imaging, Pfizer
Dr. Kevin Maresca is a Senior Director at Pfizer in the digital medicine & translational imaging line within early clinical development and the Head of PET and Molecular Imaging Group which provides imaging services across all Pfizer therapeutic areas, with a broad scope that includes novel preclinical ideas to proof of concept and late phase clinical trials. The PET imaging group utilizes key collaborations for data generation using both routine and novel methodologies. Dr. Maresca is a multi-faceted PET imaging scientist with more than 20 years of pharmaceutical drug discovery and development experience in the area of targeted small molecules, peptides and biologic-based drug product candidates, with over 50 publications/presentations and 10 patents.
Dr. Maresca received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Syracuse University and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In 2013, he joined Pfizer from Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals where he worked for 14 years, having served as Director of Radiochemistry and Production. Overall, he has been involved with the advancement of over 15 novel radiolabeled compounds into clinical trials.
