Joan E. Kureczka  

Joan E. Kureczka is the founding partner of Kureczka/Martin Associates, a firm she initially formed as J. Kureczka Associates in 1990. Prior to establishing her own practice, she was technical director and led media relations at Annes Associates, a San Francisco-based firm specializing in healthcare public and investor relations and business-to-business marketing communications.

During her career, Joan has achieved significant success in helping clients communicate difficult scientific concepts and achieve outstanding media coverage for technical and business accomplishments. She offers clients and media alike a unique perspective on healthcare technology and the biopharmaceutical industry, having prior experience as a biotechnology industry reporter, biotech public policy expert, industry consultant, and regulatory affairs staff member of biotech pioneer, Genentech.

Joan has extensive experience in the design and implementation of corporate communications programs, and is well versed in technical, regulatory, managerial, financial and media issues as they affect biotechnology, emerging pharmaceutical and related healthcare companies. She has also been instrumental in assisting young biotechnology firms with strategic positioning, as well as with the writing/editing of business plans, corporate partnering and financing documents.

She received a M.S. in environmental management from the University of San Francisco, where she performed the first-ever examination of the framework of state and local regulation affecting the biotechnology industry. The Institute of Governmental Studies, U.C. Berkeley subsequently published this research in 1984. She holds a B.S. in microbiology from Cornell University and conducted graduate level studies in biochemistry and microbiology at Colorado State University, Fort Collins.

She is an active member of the National Investor Relations Institute and the Northern California Science Writers Association.


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