C. Frank Bennett

C. Frank Bennett
Bennett in 2018
Alma materUniversity of New Mexico
Baylor College of Medicine
AwardsBreakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2019)
Scientific career
FieldsPharmacology
InstitutionsIonis Pharmaceuticals

C. Frank Bennett is an American pharmacologist. Bennett is currently the Senior Vice President of Research and Neurology Franchise Leader at Ionis Pharmaceuticals. He is a 2019 Breakthrough Prize winner in Life Sciences, which he shared with his collaborator Adrian R. Krainer for the development of an effective antisense oligonucleotide therapy for children with the neurodegenerative disease spinal muscular atrophy.

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