| TARGA
DRUG DEVELOPMENT AND BUSINESS TEAM
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. |