Arthur T. Sands

Dr. Sands was appointed chief executive officer of Nurix in September 2014. Nurix, Inc. is a leader in discovering and developing therapies that regulate protein function through the ubiquitin proteasome system (UPS). The UPS is a key cellular regulatory pathway that controls protein stabilization and degradation, a function vital to the healthy life of a cell, and presents therapeutic opportunities in multiple disease areas, including oncology and immuno-oncology.Prior to joining Nurix, Dr. Sands co-founded Lexicon Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: LXRX) and served as president, chief executive officer and a director since 1995. At Lexicon, Dr. Sands pioneered the development of large-scale gene knockout technology for use in drug discovery and guided the evolution of Lexicon from a research-stage company to a drug development company, catalyzed by numerous alliances with Bristol Myers Squibb, Takeda and Genentech, and generating more than $450 million in revenue. Lexicon’s independently developed product portfolio, now approaching late stage development and commercialization, includes small molecules directed to novel targets for treatment of carcinoid syndrome, type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes. Dr. Sands serves as adjunct professor in the Department of Human and Molecular Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine. He has also published many scientific and medical articles and is an inventor on numerous patents related to the discovery of human genes and their use in the development of new therapies. Dr. Sands holds an M.D. and a Ph.D. from Baylor College of Medicine and a B.A. in economics and political science from Yale University.