Management
C. Boyd Clarke
President and Chief Executive Officer
Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Aviron; President and Chief Executive Officer of U.S. Bioscience, Inc; President of Pasteur-Merieux MSD, and Vice President of Merck Vaccines

David A. Zopf, M.D.
Executive Vice President
Former Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of BioCarb, Inc., a biotechnology company; Chief, Section on Biochemical Pathology, at the National Cancer Institute; editorial board member of Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Robert I. Kriebel
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Former Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Director of U.S. Bioscience, Inc.; former Vice President and Controller of Rorer Group Inc.'s Armour Pharmaceutical Company subsidiary

Joseph J. Villafranca, Ph. D.
Senior Vice President, Pharmaceutical Development and Operations

Former Vice President of Biologics Strategy and Biopharmaceuticals Operations of Bristol-Myers Squibb

A. Brian Davis
Vice President, Finance

Corporate Controller of Micro Health Systems, Inc., a provider of healthcare information systems

Marjorie Hurley, Pharm.D.
Vice President, Regulatory Affairs and Project Management
Former Assistant Director of Regulatory Affairs at Cytogen Corporation, a biotechnology company; project coordinator at the Wyeth Pharmaceuticals division of Wyeth.

Chester A. Myers
Vice President, Pharmaceutical Development
Former Director, Molecular Redesign, Macromolecular Structure at Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute

W. Kevin Pelin
Vice President, Manufacturing
Former Manager, Process Development, Greenwich Pharmaceuticals; Process Development Chemist, Great Lakes Chemical Corporation; Pilot Plant Supervisor, Bristol-Myers Squibb; QC Manager, Rhone-Poulenc Rorer

Debra J. Poul
Vice President and General Counsel
Former Of Counsel at Morgan Lewis, a law firm; Of Counsel at Dechert, a law firm; Vice President and General Counsel for HEM Research, Inc., a pharmaceutical development company.

George J. Vergis, Ph.D.
Vice President, Business and Commercial Development
Former Vice President, New Product Development and Commercialization at Knoll Pharmaceutical Company, a division of BASF; Associate Director, Medical and Scientific Affairs, Warner-Lambert Parke-Davis; Clinical Research Scientist, American Home Products, Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories

Bob Bayer, Ph.D.
Senior Director, Research

Shawn DeFrees, Ph.D.
Senior Director, New Product Development

Matthew Kremer
Senior Director, Business Development

Valerie Mulligan
Senior Director, Quality Assurance

David F. Smith, Ph.D.
Senior Director, Project Management

Joseph P. Brennan
Director, Information Systems

Alan Dickason
Director, Licensing

Hoyt Emmons
Director, Safety and Security

Kathryn Gregory
Director, Business Development

David Hakes, Ph.D.
Director, Technical Information

Jeremy Middleton
Director, Commercial Development

Wendy Nagy
Associate General Counsel

Rachel Rondinelli
Director, Intellectual Property

Victor Sarantschin
Director, Technical Marketing and Business Development

Thomas Stevenson
Director, Analytical Chemistry

 

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Directors
Stephen A. Roth, Ph.D.
Chairman

Co-founder and former CEO of Neose; former Professor and Chairman of the Biology Department at the University of Pennsylvania; editorial board member of The Quarterly Review of Biology and The Journal of Molecular Recognition

C. Boyd Clarke
President and Chief Executive Officer
Neose Technologies, Inc.

L. Patrick Gage, Ph.D.
Former Senior Vice President, Science and Technology, at Wyeth and President of Wyeth Research; former president of Genetics Institute; director of the Philadelphia Orchestra Association

William F. Hamilton, Ph.D.
Landau Professor of Management and Technology and Director of the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology at The Wharton School and the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania; Director of Centocor, Inc., Hunt Manufacturing Co., and Marlton Technologies, Inc.

Douglas J. MacMaster, Jr.
Former Senior Vice President of Merck & Co., Inc., responsible for worldwide chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing; serves on the boards of numerous biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies

P. Sherrill Neff
Founding partner of Quaker BioVentures, L.P., a venture capital firm; former President and Chief Operating Officer of Neose Technologies; Former Senior Vice President, Corporate Development at U.S. Healthcare, Inc., a managed healthcare company; Managing Director and Co-head of Financial Services Group, Alex. Brown & Sons, an investment banking firm; Director of Resource America, Inc, The Bancorp.Com, Inc., Pennsylvania Biotechnology Association, The Biotechnology Institute and The University City Science Center

Mark H. Rachesky, M.D.
Founder and President of MHR Fund Management LLC; acting Chief Investment Advisor of Icahn Holding Corporation; Director of Samsonite Corporation

Lowell E. Sears
Former Chief Financial Officer of Amgen Inc.; Chairman of the Board of Directors of CoCensys Inc. and Director of Techne Corp.

Elizabeth Wyatt
Former Vice President, Corporate Licensing at Merck & Co.; serves on the board of directors of Medimmune, Inc. and The Seabury Group LLC and certain of its affiliates, as well as the board of trustees of Randolph-Macon College

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Scientific Advisory Board
Merton Bernfield, M.D.
Chief of Newborn Medicine at the Children's Hospital in Boston, Chairs the Department of Newborn Medicine at the Brigham & Women's and Beth Israel Hospitals; serves as the Clement A. Smith Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School

Henrik Clausen, DDS, DSc.
Associate Professor, School of Denistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen; expert in the field of gene cloning and host cell expression of mammalian glycosyltransferases

James C. Paulson, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular Biology at Scripps Research Institute; world renowned glycobiologist and inventor on several key patents licensed to Neose that relate to core, enabling technologies for GlycoAdvance; principal investigator on a $34 million NIGMS glue grant to fund the Consortium for Functional Glycomics; former Vice President of Research and Chief Scientific Officer of Cytel Corporation prior to Neose's acquisition of Cytel's carbohydrate synthesis technology in 1999

John F. Robyt, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry, Director of the Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Enzymology, Iowa State University; expert in the mechanisms by which enzymes synthesize and hydrolyze polysaccharides, and discoverer of numerous chemical and enzymatic modifications of carbohydrates to produce new products

Harry Schachter, M.D., Ph.D., FRSC
Expert of international repute in glycoconjugates; served as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto and as Head of the Division of Biochemistry Research at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children

Barry D. Shur, Ph.D.
Professor and Chairman, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Emory University School of Medicine; serves on the editorial boards of Glycobiology and Developmental Biology

Elaine Tuomanen, M.D.
Head, Laboratory of Molecular Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children's Hospital

George Whitesides, Ph.D.
Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University and former Chairman of the Department of Chemistry at Harvard

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GlycoAdvance Advisory Board
Henrik Clausen, DDS, DSc.
Associate Professor, School of Dentistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen; expert in the field of gene cloning and host cell expression of mammalian glycosyltransferases

Rick Cummings, Ph.D.
Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

David James, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Queensland  has made important discoveries relating minor structural changes in the carbohydrate chains of monoclonal antibodies to major changes in the ability of the antibodies to turn on immune effector functions

Howard L. Levine, Ph.D.
President of Bioprocess Technology Consultants, a company that provides technical and economic advice to enable glycoprotein manufacturing and downstream processing for many major biotechnology companies worldwide. Dr. Levine previously had biological process development and manufacturing positions at Repligen, Amgen and Genentech

James C. Paulson, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular Biology at Scripps Research Institute; world renowned glycobiologist and inventor on several key patents licensed to Neose that relate to core, enabling technologies for GlycoAdvance; principal investigator on a $34 million NIGMS glue grant to fund the Consortium for Functional Glycomics; former Vice President of Research and Chief Scientific Officer of Cytel Corporation prior to Neose's acquisition of Cytel's carbohydrate synthesis technology in 1999

Harry Schachter, M.D., Ph.D., FRSC
Expert of international repute in glycoconjugates; served as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto and as Head of the Division of Biochemistry Research at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children

Pamela Stanley, Ph.D.
Professor of Cell Biology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a world leader in cytogenetics and glycosylation mechanisms in CHO cells, the cells most commonly used for production of therapeutic glycoproteins in the biotechnology industry

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