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Robert L. Heinrikson, Ph.D., Founder, President and Chief Scientific Officer:
Dr. Heinrikson is known internationally as one of the world's leading protein chemists.
His career has been equally divided between academia and the pharmaceutical industry,
with 18 years as Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Chicago and 19 years
as Senior Research Scientist and Distinguished Fellow at Upjohn/Pharmacia in Kalamazoo,
MI. He is on the editorial board of four journals in the field of biochemistry, with
20 years service as editor of the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Dr. Heinrikson's
field of expertise is protein chemistry and protein structure-function relationships;
he lists >200 peer-reviewed publications, review articles and book chapters.
Clark W. Smith, Ph.D., Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer: Dr. Smith's
career spans 6 years in academia and 23 years at Upjohn/Pharmacia in Kalamazoo where
he was Director of Protein Sciences and leader of the peptide synthesis group. From
1998-2003, Dr. Smith was Senior Director of Global Research Site Operations. His expertise
is in peptide chemistry, and he is one of the founding officers of the American Peptide
Society with >85 peer-reviewed publications.
George B. Gross, Vice President of Business Development: Mr. Gross directs
the sales and business development activities within Proteos. He brings 30 years of
sales and marketing leadership from Upjohn/Pharmacia to the management team of Proteos.
Martin R. Deibel, Jr., Ph.D., Vice President of Protein Expression and Purification:
Dr. Deibel is an internationally recognized investigator in protein science. He had
19 years experience at Upjohn/Pharmacia in Kalamazoo in leading team efforts in production,
purification, and assay development of key target proteins in a number of therapeutic
areas. Dr. Deibel lists over 75 peer reviewed papers in protein science.
Phillip G. Zaworski, M.S., Vice President of Cell and Molecular Biology: Mr.
Zaworski has over 18 years of industrial experience in the application of molecular
biological and fermentation techniques towards the expression of proteins using bacterial,
yeast, mammalian cell and insect cell expression systems.
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