Dr. Corey Casper

Chief Research Officer, Banner Health

Dr. Corey Casper is an executive leader with a 30-year career building efficient research enterprises that advance knowledge and products for cancer, infectious disease, and rare diseases treatment and prevention. As Chief Research Officer at Banner Health, one of the largest non-profit healthcare systems in the United States with 55,000 employees across six states and $15B in annual revenue, Dr. Casper leads the organization’s research initiatives. He oversees research operations, develops partnerships, secures funding, and ensures regulatory compliance while advancing Banner’s research mission. Previously, Dr. Casper served as President and CEO of Access to Advanced Health Institute (AAHI), which he founded in 2020, raising over $120M in funding from philanthropy, outlicensing intellectual property, and grants and contracts. At AAHI, he managed a portfolio of vaccines and immunotherapeutics from preclinical stage to Phase 3 trials and co-invented a novel nanoparticle for nucleic acid delivery.