Carl Spana, Ph.D., has been a Director of the Company since September 1995 and was our Interim President from August 1995 to June 15, 1996. Dr. Spana is a co-founder of Palatin Technologies, Inc. and has been its president and chief executive officer since June 2000. He has been a director of Palatin since June 1996 and has been a director of RhoMed Incorporated since July 1995. Dr. Spana has served Palatin in other executive capacities prior to June 2000. Dr. Spana was vice president of Paramount Capital Investments, LLC, a biotechnology and biopharmaceutical merchant banking firm, and of The Castle Group Ltd., a medical venture capital firm. Through his work at Paramount Capital Investments and Castle Group, Dr. Spana co-founded and acquired several private biotechnology firms. From July 1991 to June 1993, Dr. Spana was a Research Associate at Bristol-Myers Squibb, a publicly traded pharmaceutical company, where he was involved in scientific research in the field of immunology. Dr. Spana received his Ph.D. in molecular biology from The Johns Hopkins University and his B.S. in biochemistry from Rutgers University.
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