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Dr. Riley co-founded Galera Therapeutics and has been Galera’s CSO since its founding.

Prior to Galera Therapeutics, Dr. Riley was Senior Vice President at Kereos and prior to that was VP of Research at Metaphore Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Riley spent much of his career at Monsanto, rising to a Senior Science Fellow and Manager of Metal-Mediated Chemistry. Dr. Riley is an Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at Washington University.

After graduating cum laude from Heidelberg College with majors in chemistry and mathematics, he earned his PhD at Ohio State University followed by post-doctoral training at the University of Chicago. He was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1996, elected Chairperson and organizer of the 1998 Gordon Research Conference on Inorganic Chemistry, was the recipient of the ACS St. Louis Section’s “Chemist of the Year” Award for 1999, was the recipient of the 2002 Ohio State University Devon Meek Memorial Lectureship, is the recipient of the 2003 Herman S. Bloch memorial lectureship at the University of Chicago, and was lecturer at the 31st Peter A. Leermakers symposium at Wesleyan University in May 2003. He has over 30 US Patents granted, and has published over 100 primary scientific articles.