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Michael G. Rosenblum, Ph.D.
Chief Scientific Consultant

  • Targa Chief Scientific Consultant and Co-Founder
  • Professor of Medicine & Chief, Section of Immunopharmacology and Targeted Therapy, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
  • 300+ Publications, 21 Years experience in the field of antibodies and targeted therapies
  • Extensive industry consulting experience.
  • Extensive drug development and FDA submission and presentation experience.
  • Primary inventor of Targa Therapeutic Payloads

Dr. Rosenblum heads M. D. Anderson Cancer Center’s Section of Immunopharmacology and Targeted Therapy (ITT) 10 member-laboratory with expertise in the pre-clinical and clinical development of numerous agents, some of which have been approved utilizing the laboratory’s own clinical trial data. ITT's training and expertise in the area of Pharmacology/Toxicology ranges from pre-clinical developmental stages (cellular pharmacology, animal pharmacology and toxicology studies) through Phase I and II clinical trial design, clinical pharmacology design, pharmacokinetic analysis and data interpretation.


 


Stephen B. Howell, M.D.

Chief Executive Officer & Chief Medical Consultant
Member, Board of Directors

  • Targa Chief Medical Consultant and Co-Founder
  • Medical oncologist, Professor of Medicine and Director, Cancer Pharmacology Program,
    University of California, San Diego
  • Extensive pre-clinical drug development experience
  • Co-Chairman of the GYN Committee of the Southwest Oncology Group
  • Extensive clinical trial design and execution and regulatory experience (experience in ~100 human clinical trials)
  • Co-Founder and past Medical Director, DepoTech Inc.
  • Extensive industry consulting experience

Dr. Howell is a medical oncologist and Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego where he directs the Cancer Pharmacology Program of the Cancer Center and runs a laboratory-based research program focused on mechanisms of drug resistance. This Program is responsible for the development and testing of new chemotherapeutic agents and therapeutic strategies. Dr. Howell was responsible for co-inventing the DepoFoam™ drug-delivery technology and developing DepoCyte™, the first product based on this technology, all the way through NDA approval. Dr. Howell serves as co-Chairman of the GYN Committee of the Southwest Oncology Group and has extensive experience in the design, development, and execution of cancer clinical trials. He serves on the scientific advisory boards of several pharmaceutical companies, and is a Director of Access Pharmaceutics.


 


Gary D. Aronson, M.B.A., J.D.
Chief Executive Officer, Emeritus
Member, Board of Directors

  • Targa Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
  • 18 Years experience in biotechnology start-ups & financing
  • Work related to 10 Biotechnology start-ups and early-stage companies
  • Co-founder & President, DepoTech Corp. sustained release injectable drug delivery company
  • Broad biopharma experience including biotechnology research reagents, anti-cancer drugs, pain drugs, drug delivery systems, rational drug design, drug development, human gene therapy and regenerative medicine

In a prior position as president of DepoTech Corp., Mr. Aronson had overall responsibility for supervising the pre-clinical and clinical development of several new sustained-release formulations in a number of therapeutic fields, including DepoCyte™, an anti-cancer drug now on the market, DepoMorphine™ a pain medication whose NDA has now been submitted for U.S. FDA approval and DepoBupivacaine™, a pain medications currently in advanced human clinical trials, and several other formulations in various stages of development.

 


 


Lee Meisel, MD, JD, MPH
Member, Board of Directors

A graduate of New Jersey Medical School, Dr. Meisel went on to receive an M.P.H. degree at Harvard School of Public Health and to complete his residency and fellowship in anesthesiology and critical care medicine at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. After working as Chief of Anesthesia at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in San Francisco and as a private practice anesthesiologist in San Jose, California, Dr. Meisel received his J.D. from Stanford Law School.

Working as a corporate and securities attorney with Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison in Palo Alto, California, Dr. Meisel assisted numerous biotech companies, venture capitalists and underwriters in the start-up phase of newly formed businesses, private and public financings, initial public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and licensing and technology transfers.

Dr. Meisel formerly served on the board of directors of CPS Chemical Company. As vice president of operations at CPS, Dr. Meisel was co-inventor of chemical processing techniques and compositions of matter covered by several patents, supervisor of legal, research and manufacturing operations, and part of the executive management team that sold the company to Allied Colloids, plc in England.

Dr. Meisel is currently on the board of directors of the International Association of CFS/ME and previously was a founding board member and vice president of the HHV-6 Foundation.

As president and director of Windsor Bay Capital, Inc. in Boca Raton, Florida and managing member of Orion Capital Group, LLC, Dr. Meisel is an experienced biotech investor. Dr. Meisel currently also serves on the board of directors and scientific advisory board of Epiphany BioSciences, Inc.


Clinical Advisory Board/Consultants

S. Gail Eckhardt, M.D.
Professor of Medicine and Director of the Gastro Intestinal (GI) Malignancies Program in the Division of Medical Oncology of the University of Colorado Health Science Center in Denver, CO, Dr. Eckhardt is considered one of the leading authorities on the clinical development of anti-cancer drugs related to angiogenesis and vascular targeting. With special emphasis upon this area, she has acted as Principal Investigator in over 40 human clinical trials and serves or has served as clinical adviser to over 20 biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, as well to the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Eckhardt has co-authored over 100 articles, book chapters and manuscripts. She is a Member of the GI Steering Committee of the Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG) and has acted as a reviewer for grants for the National Cancer Institute and for numerous leading oncology journals, including the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Cancer Research and the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. She is Associate Editor of the journals Investigational New Drugs and Clinical Cancer Research. Dr. Eckhardt has done clinical work and/or scientific research at several leading institutions including University of Virginia Medical Center, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, UCSD and The University of Texas. She received her M.D. (with Honors) from The University of Texas in 1985.

Jeffrey S. Weber, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief of Medicine, Norris Cancer Hospital and Professor, and Co-Head of the Developmental Therapeutics Program at the University of Southern California (USC)/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Dr. Weber also serves as Chair of the Clinical Investigations Committee. Dr. Weber is regarded as one of the leading authorities on the clinical development of new treatment modalities for melanoma and has substantial experience with other cancers, as well. Dr. Weber is a Member of the Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG) Melanoma Committee and Co-Leader of the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer’s Disease Specific Team for Melanoma. He is a Member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Immunotherapy, Human Gene Therapy, and Clinical Cancer Research, and has served as a reviewer for numerous other oncology journals. He has co-authored over 70 scientific articles, abstracts and book chapters and given numerous invited lectures at major cancer centers. Dr. Weber has served as Principal Investigator on human clinical trials related to melanoma and other cancers. He received his Ph.D. in Molecular Cell Biology from the Rockefeller University in 1979, and his M.D. from New York University medical Center in 1980 and has done clinical and research work at UCSD, UCI and the National Cancer Institute prior to joining the USC faculty.

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