Biography

• BassamDamaj
  Bassam Damaj, Ph.D
  

  President & Chief Executive Officer
  
  Bassam B. Damaj, Ph.D. has been the President, Chief Executive Officer and a director since December 2009. Dr. Damaj served as Chairman of the Board of Directors from October 2010 to April 2012. He has served as a member of our ad hoc Finance Committee since 2010. He is the co-founder of Celltek Biotechnology and served as a director from 1997 until 2000. He is also the founder of R&D; Healthcare. He is a co-founder of Bio-Quant, Inc. and served as the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Scientific Officer and a director of Bio-Quant since its inception in June 2000. He has also served as the Group Leader for the Office of New Target Intelligence and a Group Leader for immunological and inflammatory disease programs at Tanabe Research Laboratories, U.S.A., Inc., as a senior scientist and member of the senior staff board of the drug discovery department at Pharmacopeia Inc., and as a visiting scientist at Genentech Inc., Pfizer Inc. and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He also served as an independent director for CreAgri, Inc. Dr. Damaj holds a Ph.D. degree in Immunology/Microbiology from Laval University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in molecular oncology from McGill University.