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Stephen J. McCormack is a partner of Global Life Science Ventures, has more than 18 years experience in the biopharmaceutical industry, from fundamental research and technology development to intellectual property and commercialization of therapeutics. His spectrum of experience has given him the expertise required for the formation, capitalization and operation of businesses in healthcare. Dr. McCormack co-founded NeuroSystec for the development of therapeutics to treat neurological diseases. Prior to NeuroSystec he founded AlleCure which was merged with two other biotechnology companies and taken public as MannKind Corporation (MNKD:NASDAQ). Previously, Dr. McCormack was part of the founding senior management at the Keck Graduate Institute responsible for all corporate and business development activities. At Keck, he built a corporate board with 20 senior executives from the biopharmaceutical and medical device industries. Prior to Keck, Dr. McCormack was involved in business development at American Type Culture Collection and reported to the general counsel. He has held academic positions at George Mason University, Georgetown University Medical Center, Rockefeller University and the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. Among many honors, he earned the National Cancer Institute's National Research Service Award and National Institutes of Health SPORE Fellowship while at Georgetown University. He also received the International Society for Interferon Research Award and University of California Academic Senate Award. He is currently an affiliate faculty member of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University and is actively involved in public policy issues related to commercialization and patenting in the biopharmaceutical industry. Dr. McCormack, born in 1964, received his PhD in the interdepartmental Biomolecular Science and Engineering program from University of California, Santa Barbara and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. He obtained a bachelorís degree in biology from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. | 