Amanda Marie Gentile, MRes, is currently a Senior Clinical Scientist at Dicerna Pharmaceuticals where she is primarily focused on trial design, data analysis, and investigator outreach. Together with the small but mighty Clinical Operations team at Dicerna, she is also heavily involved in clinical vendor selection and management of two clinical-stage programs in rare disease and infectious disease, respectively. Amanda has 10 years of experience in the field of Clinical Research, five of which have been spent directly managing clinical trials in small to mid-size biotechnology companies. Before her current role with Dicerna, Amanda held roles of increasing responsibility at Finch Therapeutics (Somerville, MA), Intarcia Therapeutics, (Boston, MA), and Acorda Therapeutics (formerly Civitas Therapeutics (Chelsea, MA)).
Amanda has a BA in Psychology from the College of Holy Cross, Worcester, MA and a Master’s of Research Methods in Psychology from the University of York, York, UK.