Director, Business Development

Heather Sun serves as Director of Business Development at Avenzo Therapeutics. She has more than a decade of experience working in the biotech sector and life sciences strategy consulting. Her expertise spans business development, commercial insights and analytics, competitive intelligence, and corporate strategy.

Prior to joining Avenzo, Ms. Sun led the Global Business Insights and Analytics function at Turning Point Therapeutics. She played a pivotal role in establishing the organization’s market insights and competitive intelligence capabilities and served as the lead for commercial due diligence for all Business Development projects. Before her time at Turning Point, Ms. Sun worked as the marketing lead for etrasimod, an S1P receptor modulator in atopic dermatitis at Arena Pharmaceuticals. Prior to Arena, Ms. Sun worked as a Life Science Strategy consultant and amassed deep experience advising biotech and pharma companies of all sizes with growth and launch strategies.

Ms. Sun holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Boston University and has experience working as a bench scientist at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in the field of immune-oncology. She is a contributing author in more than 15 scientific publications.