Oleg Laptenko, Ph.D.

Oleg Laptenko, Ph.D., is a Principal Scientist, Preclinical Pharmacology, Deerfield Discovery and Development and joined the Firm in 2022.  Prior to Deerfield, Dr. Laptenko worked as a Scientist at a gene therapy start up for two years and at Inzen Therapeutics for two years.  Before these roles, Dr. Laptenko spent 13 years at Columbia University in Dr. Carol Prives’ laboratory working as a Post-Doctoral Scientist and then as an Associate Research Scientist.  He holds an M.S. in Biochemistry from Kharkov National University in Ukraine and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Kharkov National University & SUNY Downstate.