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Board
of Directors
• Bernard L. Kasten
, M.D., Chairman
• James Antal
• H. Daniel Perez , M.D.
• Paul E. DiCorleto , Ph.D.
• Michael Fonstein
, Ph.D
• Andrei Gudkov , Ph.D., D. Sci.
• Yakov Kogan , Ph.D., MBA
Bernard
L. Kasten, M.D.
Dr. Kasten has served as the company’s Chairman of the Board since
July 2006. From 1995 to 2004, Dr. Kasten served at Quest Diagnostics
Incorporated, where he was Chief Laboratory Officer and most recently
Vice President of Medical Affairs of the MedPlus Inc. Subsidiary.
Dr. Kasten has served as a director of SIGA Technologies (SIGA)
since May 2003, and as SIGA's Chief Executive Officer from July
2004 through April 2006. Dr. Kasten is also a director of several
privately held companies. Dr. Kasten is a graduate of the Ohio
State University College of Medicine. His residency was served
at the University of Miami, Florida and fellowships at the National
Institutes of Health Clinical Center and National Cancer Institute,
Bethesda, Maryland. He is a diplomat of the American Board of
Pathology with certification in anatomic and clinical pathology
with subspecialty certification in medical microbiology.
James Antal
Mr. Antal has served as one of the company’s directors since July
2006. From 1996 to 2001, Mr. Antal served as Chief Financial Officer
of Experian, and from 2001 to 2002 as Chief Investment Officer.
Experian is a leading global provider of consumer and business
credit information, direct marketing information services, and
integrated customer relationship management processes. He also
served on the Board of Directors of First American Real Estate
Solutions, an Experian joint venture with First American Financial
Corp. Mr. Antal earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business
Administration with an Accounting major from The Ohio State University
in 1973. He became a Certified Public Accountant (Ohio) in 1975.
Since 2002, Mr. Antal has served as an advisor to the board of
directors for Plexus Vaccine, Inc., a biotech company, until it
was acquired by SIGA Technologies in 2004. In December 2004, he
joined the SIGA board of directors, and also currently serves
on the audit and corporate governance committees. From May 2004
to August 2005, he was engaged as the Chief Financial Advisor
to the Black Mountain Gold Coffee Co. In July 2005, he joined
Pathway Data Inc, a privately held company engaged in consumer
credit notification and identity theft assistance services, as
its part time Chief Financial Officer.
H. Daniel
Perez, M.D.
Dr. Perez has served as one of the company’s directors since July
2006. Dr. Perez is currently the President of Berlex Biosciences,
which works to combine biotechnology and pharmaceutical discovery
and development technologies to deliver innovative treatments
for cardiovascular, cancer and immuno-based disorders. He joined
Berlex Biosciences in 1993. Dr. Perez earned his undergraduate
degree at Mariano Moreno School, Argentina and graduated from
Buenos Aires University Medical School. After completing an internship
and residency in internal medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center
in New York, Dr. Perez was a Fellow in Rheumatology at New York
University-Bellevue Medical Center. He served on the NYU faculty
until he was recruited by the University of California at San
Francisco Medical School (UCSF) to start the Rosalind Russell
Arthritis Center at San Francisco General Hospital under the direction
of Dr. Ira Goldstein. Dr. Perez is currently a Professor of Medicine
at UCSF.
Paul
E. DiCorleto, Ph.D.
Dr. DiCorleto has served as one of the company’s directors since
2004. He is the Chairman of the Lerner Research Institute of the
Cleveland Clinic and Chairman of the Department of Molecular Medicine
at the Case School of Medicine. Dr. DiCorleto received his undergraduate
training in chemistry at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and
his doctorate in biochemistry from Cornell University. Dr. DiCorleto's
research focuses on the molecular and cellular basis of atherosclerosis.
He has been with the Cleveland Clinic since 1981, having served
previously as Chairman of the Department of Cell Biology, as an
Associate Chief of Staff, and as a member of the Clinic's Board
of Governors and Board of Trustees. Dr. DiCorleto is currently
serving, as the most recent past president, on the Executive Committee
of the North American Vascular Biology Organization, as chair
of the Vascular Biology study section of the national American
Heart Association, and as a member of the Association of American
Medical Colleges' Advisory Panel on Research.
Michael
Fonstein, Ph.D.
Dr. Fonstein has served as the company’s Chief Executive Officer
and President since the company’s inception in June 2003. Trained
as an expert in genomics, he served as Director of the DNA Sequencing
Center at the University of Chicago from its creation in 1994
to 1998, when he left to found Integrated Genomics, Inc. located
in Chicago, Illinois. He served as CEO and President of Integrated
Genomics from 1997 to 2003. Dr. Fonstein has won several business
awards, including the Incubator of the Year Award from the Association
of University Related Research Parks. He was also the winner of
a coveted KPMG Illinois High Tech Award.
Andrei
Gudkov, Ph.D., D. Sci.
Dr. Gudkov has served as one of the company’s directors and as
the company’s Chief Scientific Officer since the company’s inception
in June 2003. Prior to 1990, he worked at The National Cancer
Research Center in Moscow (USSR) where he led a broad research
program focused on virology and cancer drug resistance. In 1990,
he reestablished his lab at the University of Illinois at Chicago
where he became a tenured faculty member in the Department of
Molecular Genetics. In 1999, Dr. Gudkov defined p53 as a major
determinant of cancer treatment side effects and suggested this
protein as a target for therapeutic suppression. In 2001, Dr.
Gudkov moved his laboratory to the Lerner Research Institute at
the Cleveland Clinic where he became Chairman of the Department
of Molecular Biology and Professor of Biochemistry at Case Western
Reserve University. In 2007, Dr. Gudkov accepted the position
of Senior VP Basic Science and Chair, Department of Cell Stress
Biology at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, NY. Dr. Gudkov
is not employed full time by the company, but rather divides time
between his work for CBLI and for Roswell Park. His lab is focused
on the development of new gene and drug discovery methodologies
and their applications to development of cancer treatment approaches.
Yakov Kogan,
Ph.D., MBA
Dr. Kogan has served as one of the company's directors since the company's inception in June 2003 and as Secretary since March 2006. He currently holds the position of Chief Operating Officer and was previously Executive Vice President of Business Development. From 2001 to 2003, he served as Director for Business Development at Integrated Genomics, where he was responsible for commercial sales and expansion of the company's capital base. Prior to his tenure in business development, Dr. Kogan worked as a Group Leader/Senior Scientist at Integrated Genomics and ThermoGen, Inc. and as Research Associate at the University of Chicago. Dr. Kogan holds a Ph.D. degree in Molecular Biology from VNII Genetica, as well as an M.S. degree in Biology from Moscow State University and an MBA from the University of Chicago. |
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