Acelyrin, Inc. announced the appointment of Patricia Turney as Chief Technical Operations Officer. Reporting to Founder and CEO Shao-Lee Lin, MD, PhD, Ms. Turney will be responsible for overseeing technical operations, CMC regulatory, corporate quality and facilities, and will join the company?s Senior Leadership Team. Ms. Turney most recently served as Senior Vice President, Operations at Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc., where she built the Technical Operations organization to successfully execute on their product development milestones including several product filings and the first Commercial Product launch in the U.S. and Canada.

Prior to that, Ms. Turney held roles of increasing responsibility with Amgen. As Vice President of External Manufacturing, she was responsible for a worldwide network of more than fifty contract manufacturing sites and her organization managed early-to-late-stage programs across numerous technologies and delivery platforms. Her team supplied several commercial products supporting more than $4 billion in revenue. Prior to that, Ms. Turney was the Site Operations head at Amgens Manufacturing Site in the Netherlands.

Ms. Turney also developed a new function to enable numerous pipeline combination product programs from auto-injectors to on-body injectors through to regulatory approval. Earlier in her career at Amgen, she also led R&D strategic operations initiatives for portfolio analysis, benchmarking, training, lean six sigma, and strategic planning. Earlier in her career, Ms. Turney was a Federal Aviation Administration Certified Flight Instructor, Airline Transport Pilot, and a Naval Aviator in the United States Navy.

Ms. Turney has been recognized with The HBA Luminary Award for her commitment to healthcare and advancing others careers as a role model and mentor. She currently serves as Chairperson of the Exceptional Minds Board of Directors. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Engineering from the United States Naval Academy and a Master of Business Administration from the Anderson School at the University of California, Los Angeles.