Chief Medical Officer
Cidara Therapeutics
Disclosure: Cidara Therapeutics, Inc. (Employee, Shareholder)
Taylor Sandison, MD MPH is the Chief Medical Officer at Cidara Therapeutics. Taylor has been with Cidara since October 2015. He has extensive experience in anti-infective clinical trials and drug development in both academia and industry. Prior to joining the company, he served as senior medical director at Merck and prior to that held the same position at Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Taylor has also held positions at Trius Therapeutics and Novartis Diagnostics, and served as a member of the faculty in the Department of Medicine at both Stanford University and the University of Washington. He received B.S. and B.A. degrees from Dartmouth College, M.D. and M.P.H. degrees from the University of Washington, and a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (DTM&H) from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He completed internal medicine residency training at the University of Colorado and infectious diseases fellowship training at the University of Washington. Taylor currently holds board certifications in Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine.
