Bolt Biotherapeutics, Inc. announced the appointment of Laura Berner to its Board of Directors effective December 14, 2022. Laura Berner has extensive biopharma industry experience, in leadership roles spanning corporate strategy, business development, investor relations and law. She currently serves as Chief Operating Officer at TRexBio, a private, venture-backed biotechnology company, with responsibility for corporate and operational functions.

Previously, Ms. Berner was Vice President, Head of Business Development & Investor Relations at Myovant Sciences, where she led the execution of global partnerships for the commercialization of the company's lead products Myfembree® (relugolix, estradiol and norethindrone acetate) and Orgovyx® (relugolix) and supported Myovant through multiple follow-on financings. Earlier in her career, Ms. Berner was a member of the business development team at Roche Pharma Partnering and the transactional law group at Genentech. She began her career as a corporate attorney, first at Ropes & Gray LLP and later in the Office of the General Counsel at Harvard University, advising on general corporate, business development and strategic transactions.

Ms. Berner earned her B.A. in biology from Bryn Mawr College, her J.D. from Stanford Law School, and her MBA from the University of Illinois Urbana Champagne Gies College of Business.