Jon Collins

Chief Scientific Officer, Pinnacle Hill
4008 Marsico Hall
125 Mason Farm Road
Email: jon.l.collins@unc.edu
Ph: 919-381-8257
Biography
Prior to joining UNC, Jon Collins served as Director of Discovery Partnerships with Academia at GlaxoSmithKline, where he led joint academia-GSK drug discovery collaborations across the United States. Collins has 24 years’ experience leading multidisciplinary drug discovery research teams across all phases of early drug discovery, from therapeutic target identification to development candidate selection. He has served as a co-author on 80 scientific publications and is an inventor on 16 composition of matter patents claiming six clinical development compounds. He currently serves as a scientific advisor for the University of Michigan Therapeutic Innovation Fund and BioLabs NC, and previously served as a member of the Duke-Coulter Translational Partnership Oversight Committee. He received his BS degree in chemistry from UNC and PhD in organic chemistry from IU at Bloomington, then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard.
Administrative Staff
Lyndsey Suarez provides administrative support to Jon Collins.
Email: battl@unc.edu
Ph: 919-445-9640