USD School of Law Alumna Marguerite Hutchinson '09 (JD) Appointed Chief Business Office of STORM Therapeutics Ltd.

SAN DIEGO (November 2, 2023) ­­– University of San Diego (USD) School of Law alumna Marguerite Hutchinson ‘09 (JD) has been appointed Chief Business Office of STORM Therapeutics Ltd. STORM is a clinical stage biotechnology company, based in the United Kingdom, creating novel therapies that inhibit RNA modifying enzymes (RME) for use in oncology and other diseases.

Hutchinson has over ten years extensive experience in leading licensing agreements and collaborations with large, high profile healthcare companies as well as experience in legal and strategic operations. She joins STORM from Tatara Therapeutics, where she was Chief Executive Officer, a University of California San Francisco spin-out which she set up and raised seed financing. 

Jerry McMahon, Chief Executive Officer of STORM Therapeutics, said: "Marguerite brings strategic vision to align our business with existing and new shareholders as we advance our current clinical program into additional advanced clinical studies."

Hutchinson commented: "STORM is advancing the first RNA methyltransferase inhibitor to enter clinical development and I am delighted to be joining the team at a pivotal stage of clinical development with its lead candidate STC-15, which has the potential to significantly improve patient outcomes. I look forward to working closely with the stellar management team at STORM."

As a law student, Hutchinson was both a member of the USD School of Law Appellate Moot Court Board and the San Diego International Law Journal.

About the University of San Diego School of Law

Each year, USD educates approximately 800 Juris Doctor and graduate law students from throughout the United States and around the world. The law school is best known for its offerings in the areas of business and corporate law, constitutional law, intellectual property, international and comparative law, public interest law and taxation.

USD School of Law is one of the 84 law schools elected to the Order of the Coif, a national honor society for law school graduates. The law school’s faculty is a strong group of outstanding scholars and teachers with national and international reputations and currently ranks 30th nationally among U.S. law faculties in scholarly impact and 41st nationally in past-year faculty downloads on the Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN). The school is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. Founded in 1954, the law school is part of the University of San Diego, a private, independent, Roman Catholic university chartered in 1949.