Mark Birner
Description JERALD S. COBBS has served as a director since March 2006 and as Chairman of the Board from October 2006 until February 2008. Mr. Cobbs brings extensive experience in the health sciences and biotechnology sector to the Board. From March 2007 to September 2008, Mr. Cobbs was appointed as our Interim President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Cobbs is Chief Commercialization Officer of the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT). Mr. Cobbs was a Managing Director of LOF Partners, LLC, an investment management fund, from 2001 until March 2009. Mr. Cobbs has more than twenty five years experience in the health sciences and biotechnology industries. He presently serves on the board of directors of Cedarburg Pharmaceuticals. He is a board observer to Optiscan Biomedical Corporation and Functional Genetics, Inc. Mr. Cobbs previously served as the Assistant Director of Technology Development at the University of Texas ? M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, in the Houston Medical Center. During his tenure at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, he helped form two molecular therapy companies: Introgen Therapeutics (NASDAQ: INGN), a pioneer in gene-based therapies for a variety of cancers based in Austin, Texas and Rgene Therapeutics, which was sold to Targeted Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ: TGEN). Mr. Cobbs was also Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Quantitative Diagnostic Laboratories, a cancer diagnostic and image analysis company based in Chicago, IL. Mr. Cobbs received his M.B.A. from the University of Houston. To view the detailed information, you need to SUBSCRIBE with us. |
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