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Meet The Team

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Founder & CEO

Ihor Terleckyj Ph.D

  • 30+ years experience in pharmaceutical industry

  • VP-in-residence, Shifa Biomedical 

  • Executive Director, Matinas

  • Director, GSK, Global Product Strategy

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Scientific Advisor

Dr. Salim Merali, Ph.D.

  • Co-founder, VTX-31 inventor

  • Associate Dean of Research, Temple University

  • Carnell Professor of Pharmacy, Temple University School of Pharmacy

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Scientific and Medical Advisor

Dr. Lynne Johnson, MD

  • Co-founder, Inventor VTX-4

  • Professor of Medicine, Columbia University

  • Internationally-renowned expert in RAGE research and clinical imaging

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Scientific Advisor

Dr. Ying Sun, Ph.D.

  • Research collaborator, developed GD mouse model

  • Professor of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati Medicine, Columbia University

  • Expert in genetic brain diseases

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Head, Clinical Development

Douglass Greene, MD

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  • Former Chief Medical Officer, Sanofi-Aventis

  • VP, Clinical Science Product Development, Merc

  • Expert in diabetes basic science and clinical R&D

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Scientific Advisor

Dr. Wayne Childers, Ph.D.

  • Co-founder, Inventor VTX-31, VTX-GD

  • Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Temple University School of Pharmacy

  • Associate Director of the Moulder Center for Drug Discovery Research, Temple University School of Pharmacy

  • Former Senior Scientist, Medicinal Chemistry, Wyeth-Ayerst Research

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Scientific and Medical Advisor

Dr. Greg Grabowski, MD

  • Professor Emeritus, Departments of Pediatrics, and of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry, and Microbiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

  • Internationally-renowned expert in lysosomal disease including Gaucher 

  • Former CSO at Synageva and Kiniksa

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Business Advisor

Ezra Felker, MBA

  • Grants Park Advisors

  • Former COO, VenatoRx

  • VP, Operations at NuPath

  • Entrepreneur-in-residence at BioAdvance

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