Bryan Moyer

Senior Vice President - Discovery Latigo Biotherapeutics

Bryan has more than 20 years of experience in research and development, with an established record leading drug discovery teams for target identification/validation, target engagement in translatable models of human disease and clinical candidate delivery. He co-founded Latigo Biotherapeutics where he led the discovery organization to deliver two clinical candidates targeting Nav1.8. Prior to Latigo, and during his ten-year tenure at Amgen, he led multi-modality discovery programs to advance small molecule, peptide, and antibody-based therapeutics for pain and migraine indications. Prior to Amgen, Bryan was at Senomyx, a biotechnology company working on taste biology, where he led drug discovery and target identification efforts for taste receptors and transmembrane targets. Bryan has a B.S. in Animal Physiology and Neuroscience from the University of California, San Diego, a Ph.D. in Physiology from Dartmouth Medical School, and completed his postdoctoral fellowship at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California.

Seminars

Wednesday 28th January 2026
Strategies for the Discovery, Validation & Prosecution of New Pain Targets
2:00 pm
  • Strategies to maximize success in selecting new pain targets are essential to guiding effective therapeutic development
  • Validation of new pain targets using human biology to strengthen confidence in translational relevance
  • Drug discovery approaches to advancing the development of new pain therapeutics
Bryan Moyer - Non-Opioid Pain Therapeutics Summit