Dr. Blain is an internationally known expert in cell cycle and cancer biology, and is one of the world’s experts on p27Kip1. She has been studying cell cycle regulation for more than 25 years as an NIH funded investigator and tenured Associate Professor at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center. She founded Concarlo, capitalizing on discoveries she made and patented. She was trained at Princeton, Columbia and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Arthur Klausner is an experienced life science venture capitalist and company executive. He earned his M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and his B.A. in Biology from Princeton University. He was previously CEO and a board member of Goldilocks Therapeutics, Gem Pharmaceuticals, and Jade Therapeutics. He earlier spent a total of 18 years as a life sciences venture capitalist at Domain Associates and Pappas Ventures. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Monopar Therapeutics (Nasdaq: MNPR), and on the Life Sciences Investment Review Board for the New York University Innovation Venture Fund.

Dr. Allamneni is a biopharma R&D expert with almost 20+ IND/IMPD submissions, 6 NDA/MAA approvals, and a track record of efficiently developing therapeutic candidates of various modalities. Forward-thinking leader in R&D strategy and tactical planning, and a highly regarded operational manager for key R&D functions. Impactful global regulatory interactions with FDA, MHRA, BfArM, ANSM, PMDA, Health Canada, TGA etc. during clinical development, partnership, and commercialization. Formerly with Turning Point, Jazz Pharmaceuticals and Genentech.

Mr. Shepel is a highly talented business strategy and operations leader with ~20 years of experience. Mr. Shepel joins Concarlo from BeiGene where he was the Senior Director of New Market Development. Previously he spent five years at Pfizer where he was the Director of Strategy and Consulting in the Vaccines and Hospital Business Units. His earlier career includes public health work in Sub-Saharan Africa with the Clinton Health Access Initiative, and investment roles at First New York Securities and BNP Paribas Fortis.

Mr. Mraz’s career has been focused in the financial markets for over 30 years since he joined JPMorgan in 1989. In 1999 he was a co-founding partner of the money management firm, Ospraie Management, where he is still an active partner today.In 2015 he teamed with Dr. Stacy Blain to found Concarlo and guides the team on all financial mattersIn 2017, he lead the development of the Ospraie AgScience team and platform, which currently invests in catalytic agricultural biotechnology.

Natalia specializes in liposome and lipid nanoparticle drug delivery systems. Prior to her current role, she held various positions at Evonik Vancouver laboratories, facilitating transition of customer projects through various stages of development, from proposal scoping to formulation development to early clinical manufacturing. Natalia has over 20 years of experience in lipid nanoparticle drug delivery field and has been involved in all aspects of liposome manufacturing, starting from early-stage formulation design, process development, scale-up and early clinical manufacturing. Prior to Evonik, she worked at a number of Vancouver based drug delivery companies (CDRD/adMare, Celator/Jazz, Inex), focusing on liposomal products. Natalia holds undergraduate degree in Chemistry from University of British Columbia.

Dr. Grace Chen received her Ph.D. in immunology at the University of Toronto, Canada. Following that, Grace completed two postdoctoral fellowships, published extensively, and have led numerous research projects. She has over 15 years of experience in the fields of cell biology, immunology, and hematology. Prior to her current role, she served as a research scientist at Concarlo where she spearheaded the optimization and preclinical development of Concarlo’s lead compound.

Dr. Hassan Rashidzadeh comes to us with 20 years of Biopharma experience in analytical, bioanalytical chemistry and biomarker quantitation with contributions to over 20 programs spanning across early development stage to clinical and post market life cycle management; 3 of which resulted in globally marketed products and one at the verge of approval. Prior to Concarlo, Hassan served as Director of Bioanalytical (BA) for Turning Therapeutics’ oncology small molecule and ADC programs. Previously, he led BA at Wave Life Sciences, Takeda (Shire), Vertex, Idenix (Merck) and Charles River Labs across multiple therapeutic areas such as rare diseases, antivirals, ophthalmology, neuroscience, and oncology. Hassan holds an MS, Ph.D degree in analytical chemistry (mass spectrometry) from Cleveland State University, and a postdoctoral fellowship from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and is an active member of the WRIB community.

Sean Larkin has over a decade of experience in CFO / COO roles, spanning the startup process through corporate growth and change initiatives. His specialties include organizational management and emerging technologies. Prior to Concarlo Therapeutics, Sean was running outsourced CFO Firm LBC, LLC, working as a member of the Masotti & Masotti Digital Asset Group and as a member of MMBA, which is a blockchain education platform.

Anusha serves as a Principal Scientist at Concarlo. Anusha is a Biotechnologist with a specialization in developing peptide-based organic/inorganic nanomedicine platforms for drug delivery and gene delivery applications. Anusha received her Ph.D. at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, India, in 2018. Following that, Anusha did her postdoctoral research at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT-Delhi), India, with Dr. Archana Chugh, and at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, New York, with Dr. Michelle Bradbury. During Anusha’s doctoral and postdoctoral studies, she designed various nanoparticle assemblies for anti-cancer and antimicrobial applications.

Lena serves as a Research Scientist at Concarlo. Lena obtained her BS from NYU Tandon School of Engineering in biomolecular science with a minor in psychology. Lena has experience in a variety of labs at top institutions, specializing in immuno-oncology and molecular biology. Lena has performed basic and high-skill techniques for both in vivo and in vitro experiments in both academic and industry settings. Lena is highly motivated and passionate about oncology research.

Dr. Bridon is an R&D executive with extensive North American and international experience of drug development from research to proof-of-concept clinical studies (Phase II) and regulatory submission in EU and US. 20+ years of experience with peptides therapeutics including drug protein bio-conjugate development across multiple therapeutic areas to treat cancer, anti-infective, metabolic and cardiovascular diseases. He previously held various management positions at Optivia (acquired by BioIVT), Ipsen, Abbott, Enobia (acquired by Alexion) and Neuronax and served on the scientific boards of Syntaxin (acquired by Ipsen) and Biosortia. He is currently CEO of Diaccurate, a Paris-based star-up.

Ms. Matz, RPh, is a seasoned, results oriented pharmaceutical professional providing technical consulting in the areas of product formulation and process development for preclinical through Phase 4 studies. Her expertise encompasses the preparation and manufacture of a myriad of delivery systems including tablets (IR, MR and ER, orally disintegrating and thin films), capsules (hard and soft shell), spray dried and dispersed systems, liquids (solutions, micro emulsions, suspensions and nasogastric enteral systems), transdermal drug delivery systems, topicals (ointments, creams and sticks), MDI’s, DPI’s, suppositories, etc. She also has extensive experience in conducting process scale-up and validation; clinical trial material and launch supply manufacturing and packaging; technology transfers; NDA/CTD writing, etc. She has worked with Pfizer, Medivation, Boehringer Ingelheim and Key Pharmaceuticals developing proprietary NME’s as well as having worked with generic companies. Furthermore, she is named on several patents.

Jeff Millard has both academic and industrial experience in chemistry and pharmaceutical sciences covering all aspects of CMC (chemistry, manufacturing, and controls). He has been directly responsible for the research and IND authoring of more than 7 IND submissions (to both CDER and CBER), IMPDs, and several successful SBIR grant applications. His drug product experience includes pre-formulation, formulation, tech transfer and cGMP manufacturing of both solid oral dosages as well as sterile, complex parenterals including liposomes.

Dr. DeVita is an experienced medicinal chemist and drug hunter in academia, biotech and large pharmaceutical environments. He has over 30 years of drug discovery and development experience including expertise managing multi-disciplinary teams to deliver on key program objectives for complex molecular targets. Dr. DeVita started his career at Merck Research Laboratories and rose to Director of Medicinal Chemistry, where he delivered many development candidates and led drug discovery and development teams. Dr. DeVita was also VP of Chemistry at Agios Pharmaceuticals focused on oncology drug discovery. Since 2013, he founded a consulting firm which has consulted for a wide variety of clients including biotechs building translational drug discovery programs. He is also Professor in the Dept. of Pharmacological Sciences and Director of Medicinal Chemistry in the Drug Discovery Institute of Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai since 2014.

Dr. Janice Lansita is a board-certified toxicologist with over 17 years of experience both in the biopharmaceutical industry and with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). As a regulatory toxicologist, she has developed small molecule (NME and 505(b)(2)) and biologic therapies for a broad range of indications (e.g., rare disease, oncology, neurology, pain, ophthalmology, and immunology). Dr. Lansita has extensive experience in the design, monitoring, and interpretation of nonclinical toxicology studies (GLP and non-GLP) and has authored the nonclinical sections of various regulatory documents, including pre-INDs, INDs/CTAs (>45), Investigator Brochures, BLAs/NDAs, and package inserts/product labels for biopharmaceuticals.

Dr. Wu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (SUNY Buffalo). Her research focuses on the development of nanotherapeutics for cancer and chronic diseases and the development of in vitro diagnostic tests for cancer screening, diagnosis and prognosis. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Ohio State University in 2009. After completion of her degree, she received her postdoc training in the NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center at the Ohio State University.