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Co-Founder and Head Scientific Advisor: Yung-Chi Cheng, Ph.D., is the Henry Bronson Professor of Pharmacology and Professor of Medicine at Yale University Medical School as well as Director of the Developmental Therapeutics Program of the Yale Comprehensive Cancer Center.  Prof. Cheng is a leader in cancer and viral pharmacology and has recently developed an interest in the use of traditional Chinese medicine in cancer: Prof. Cheng has 5 clinical candidates in the area of nucleoside analogs for antiviral therapy; he is a scientific chairman and/or member of several federal boards and committees; he serves as a consultant for many pharmaceutical firms; and he is on the editorial board of many journals.  Professor Cheng is a member of Academia Sinica in the Republic of China and holds the honorary Professor title at 5 prominent Chinese Medical Universities.  Professor Cheng is also the co-chair for the Consortium for the Globalization of Chinese Medicine, the co-founder of PhytoCeutica in 1999 and its Head Scientific Advisor.  Prof. Cheng obtained his Ph.D. in Biochemical Pharmacology from Brown University under the direction and mentorship of Professor R.E. Parks, Jr. and his postdoctoral training was completed at the Department of Pharmacology at Yale University under the direction of Professor William H. Prusoff. 

 

 

Vice President of Operations & Director of Clinical Department: Tah-Mun Su, Ph.D., joined PhytoCeutica in 1999. He was the former President of Delta Tech Co., Ltd and Taiwan Biotech Co., Ltd.  Dr. Su was responsible for designing and building the first GMP-certified pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in Taiwan and has expertise in the production of pharmaceutical grade materials and in U.S./Chinese regulatory affairs.  Dr. Su was one of the early biotech pioneers at the General Electric Research Center.  He obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University and pursued his post-doctoral training at U.C. Berkeley.

 

Chief Operating Officer & Vice President of Science and Technology: Robert Tilton, Ph.D., joined PhytoCeutica in 2000.  He was the former Vice President of Informatics and Computational Design at ArQule, Inc.  Previously, he was Director of Structural Chemistry and Analytics at Bayer Corporation.  Dr. Tilton has experience with both pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies along with an extensive scientific background in small molecule discovery, chemoinformatics and biological screening technologies.  Dr. Tilton obtained his Ph.D. from U.C. San Francisco and pursued his post-doctoral training at M.I.T.

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