Dean’s Corporate Advisory Board Member
René Hubert
Scientific Director, Early Career Talent and Academic Engagement
Global Research, Amgen
Impacting patients has always guided René Hubert’s career and he has been dedicated to advancing technology innovation and biologic drug development within the vibrant biotech ecosystem of the greater Los Angeles area. After earning his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from USC and completing postdoctoral research at Cedars-Sinai and UCLA, he entered the biotech world to push the boundaries of biologic drug development.
From discovering antibody targets at Agensys to developing expression systems at Xencor and Amgen, Hubert has spent his career building the tools and technologies that bring innovative medicines to life. At Amgen, where he’s worked for the past eight years, he led the Expression and Cell Engineering group in Protein Engineering and now focuses on developing early-career scientific talent while accessing innovation in academia through outreach, postbacc programs, and graduate fellowships.
Hubert believes the future of biotechnology lies not only in discovery — but in the people who make discovery possible.