Roster
2019-2021 RCMB Innovation & Entrepreneurial Working Group Roster
| Name | Institution | Start-up Company |
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| David Lagares | Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School | Founder of Mediar Therapeutics |
| Louise Hecker | Associate Professor, University of Arizona | Founder of Fibronox |
| Scott Turner | Vice President of Translational Science | VP of Pliant Therapeutics |
| Richard Marshall | Senior Vice President and Global Head of Respiratory & Immunology Late Stage Development, AstraZeneca | |
| S. Vamsee Raju | Assistant Professor at University of Alabama at Birmingham | |
| Toby Maher | Director of Interstitial Lung Disease, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. | |
| Kambez Benam | Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh | Founder of Pneumax |
| Naftali Kaminski | Boehringer-Ingelheim Endowed Professor of Internal Medicine Chief of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine |
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| Timothy R Watkins | Executive Director, Clinical Research Respiratory Disease Area Lead Inflammation Therapeutics Gilead Sciences Inc. |
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| Chelsea Magin | Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, Departments of Medicine and Bioengineering, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus | Counsultant to Sharklet Technologies |
| Milica Vukmirovic | Health Innovation Coach, McMaster University; | Innovation and Commercialization consultant, The Research Institute of St Joe's |
| Jason J Rose | Assistant Professor of Medicine and Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine | President, CEO, and co-Founder of Globin Solutions |
| Dean Sheppard | Division Chief of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep and Director of the Lung Biology Center, UCSF and Scientific Founder of Pliant Therapeutics | Scientific Founder of Pliant Therapeutics |
| Nicholas Kenyon | Division Chief of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, UC David Health | ICORPS leader |
| Robert Tarran | Professor, Department of Cell Biology & Physiology, University of North Carolina | CSO of Eldec Pharmaceuticals |
| Alan Cohen | Vice President - Global Medical Affairs Eidos Therapeutics San Francisco, CA |
Eidos Therapeutics |
| Rama Mallampalli | Professor and Chair, Department of Internal Medicine, Ohio State University College of Medicine. | Consultant and co-founder of Koutif |
| Jacob S Brenner | Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania 's Pulmonary. Allergy, & Critical Care Division | Founder of RightAir |
| David Morris | Operating Partner, Novartis Venture Fund | Chief Medical Officer of Enterprise Therapeutics |
| Silke Hobbie | Global Head of Business Development & Licensing, Respiratory, Boehringer Ingelheim | |
| Lynne Murray | Respiratory, Inflammation, Autoimmunity IMED unit, AstraZeneca | |
| Irina Petrache | Chief, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine Professor of Medicine Department of Medicine, National Jewish Health |
Scientific founder of Allinaire Therapeutics |
| Richard Gomer | Professor, Department of Biology Texas A&M University | Co-founder of Promedior |
| Jeremy Hirota | Assistant Professor of Medicine, McMaster University | Advisor to M De Groote initativie for entrepreneruship and commercialization, McMaster University |
| Melanie Koenigshoff | Professor, University of Colorado Denver - Anschutz Medical Campus |
