As Vice President, Head of Regulatory Affairs, Bill Tubbs provides leadership and oversight to ensure quality regulatory submissions and productive meetings with Health Authorities around the globe. Additionally, he leads the regulatory department and manages tasks and functions conducted by Contract Research Organizations.

Bill joined Visterra in 2019 and has over 25 years of drug development experience with biologics. His experience includes all phases of drug development in small and large companies with a variety of modalities, including monoclonal antibodies, recombinant proteins, plasma proteins, and live attenuated bacterial vaccines. His experience also covers a broad range of therapeutic areas including kidney, autoimmune, oncology, pulmonary disease, and rare diseases. Bill’s mission is to build a regulatory department that adds value to development through an understanding of regulations, guidance documents and approval packages.

Bill holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Birmingham-Southern College and a Master of Theological Studies degree from the Boston University School of Theology.