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Dr. Wiehle originally joined us in 1996 and now serves as the Vice President, Research and Development. He has over 30 years of experience in biomedical sciences which includes projects involving male and female reproductive biology, cancer biology, virology, and cell biology. Previously Dr. Wiehle served as the lead scientist for all of the company's hormonally-based programs and was instrumental in the licensing of a series of SPRMs from the NICHD. Dr. Wiehle received a B.S., in Chemistry, from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He worked as an Assistant Biochemist at the IIT Research Institute in Chicago on animal models of human cancer. Dr. Wiehle earned his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from The University of Louisville School of Medicine/Health Science focusing on hormone receptors in human breast cancer. He earned a post doctoral award under a Sonderesforshungsgemeinshaft (SFG) at the Institut fuer Molekularbiologie und Tumorforshung (IMT) of the Phillips University in Marburg, Germany to study the use of recombinant retrovial vectors to transform mammalian cells. He has held faculty positions at the James Graham Brown Cancer Center/University of Louisville and the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the Baylor College of Medicine. He has been awarded research grants by the NIH and local and national clinical/scientific organizations. He has authored more than 25 publications and has delivered invited lectures. | 