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Culture & values

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We Value the Patient

We strive to be closely attuned to patients’ needs. We reflect attention to those needs across the full range of our work, from indication selection to study design to resource allocation and beyond. The prospect of addressing unmet needs gives weight and urgency to the efforts we undertake.

We Value Our People

We create the conditions for our employees to thrive, facilitating their learning and growth through a richly supportive workplace setting.


We cultivate an environment where every voice is heard. 

We encourage the expression of different points of view in decision-making processes. At every turn, we encourage deep listening, thoughtful consideration, and a posture of open-mindedness that allows for decisions to be changed or refined in step with new data.

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We Value the Pathway Yet to Be Paved

We are innovators. We envision, design, test and develop novel approaches to the treatment of disease—exercises which each require high degrees of curiosity, courage, and resilience. We are undaunted in the face of failure. We are never complacent amid success. Our appetite to overcome conventions—creating new products, categories, and models—powers our ability to bring value to patients.

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Health Equity: Improving Access to Medicines, Ensuring Diverse Representation

Spotlight, Arturo Molina, MD, Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Molina, how are you helping to advance access to medicines?

At Protagonist, we work hard to meet the needs of the patient communities who are relying on us to innovate new and better medicines. Part of our commitment to them includes working to advance our medicines through clinical studies as quickly as possible and ensuring patients can access investigational therapies outside of our clinical trials, which has allowed some patients in critical need to access our therapies for several additional years after trials conclude.

We’re seeing a greater push for better representation in therapeutic innovation across the industry. How is Protagonist supporting diverse and equitable discovery and development?

Protagonist actively works to ensure we have strong patient representation in our clinical studies. We actively seek patients from across urban, suburban, and rural locations, from varying age groups and from among diverse backgrounds to ensure equitable patient representation in our study data.

We’re particularly concerned aging populations are left out of clinical studies, and we’re currently working to recruit older patients into our trials.