Executive Management

R. Scott Struthers, Ph.D., is our co-founder and has served on our board of directors since November 2008 and as our President and Chief Executive Officer since December 2008. Prior to Crinetics, he was senior director and head of endocrinology and metabolism at Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc., from 1998 to 2008. At Neurocrine, he initiated and led the company’s efforts to discover and develop orally active, nonpeptide GnRH antagonists, including elagolix. Prior to Neurocrine, from 1995 to 1998, he co-founded ScienceMedia Inc. to develop eLearning solutions for the life sciences and higher education markets and led contract research efforts at Biosym Technologies, from 1992 to 1995, to develop and apply computational tools for drug discovery. In 2009, Dr. Struthers co-founded the San Diego Entrepreneurs Exchange, a nonprofit organization which he has served on the board of directors of since January 2009.

Since October 2021, Dr. Struthers has served as chairperson of the board of Radionetics Oncology, a pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of novel radiotherapeutics for oncology indications in which Crinetics holds a minority equity stake. He holds a Ph.D. in physiology and pharmacology from the University of California, San Diego based on the work he performed at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Dr. Struthers’ knowledge of our business, as well as his extensive development and clinical experience, contributed to our board of directors’ conclusion that he should serve as a director of our company.