Ramon W. Mohanlal, MD, Ph.D., MBA, joined us as our Chief Medical Officer in July, 2005. He is a physician with specialist training in internal medicine and cardiology and has 12 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry. Prior to joining us, Dr. Mohanlal spent three and a half years as Medical Director at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc, where he was responsible for developing its anti-inflammatory drug portfolio. He was co-founder of, and served as acting Chief Executive Officer and Director of Research and Development at Syncytium, Inc. Prior to that, he worked for Pharmacia and GlaxoWellcome in clinical drug development positions of increasing managerial seniority. Dr. Mohanlal holds a MD and Ph.D. (Cardiology) from the University of Leiden, The Netherlands. He obtained a MBA from AIU and attended the greater Boston executive management program at the MIT/Sloan School of Management. |