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Sam Campbell, President and CEO

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Jahna Howell, Director of Laboratory Operations

 

 

Board of Directors

William P. Duncan is President of the Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute. Prior to joining the Life Sciences Institute, Dr. Duncan was Vice President of Technical Operations for Midwest Research Institute, providing oversight for MRI's six technical divisions. From 1995 to 1999, Dr. Duncan was responsible for MRI's Strategic Marketing Program and the activities of MRI regional marketing representatives. From 1988 to 1995, Dr. Duncan was President and Chief Operating Officer of Oread Laboratories, Inc. He received a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Oklahoma State University in 1972. He is a member of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, American Chemical Society, International Association of Radiopharmacology, International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics and International Isotope Society (IIS), where he served as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board and on the editorial board of the Jounrnal of Labelled Compounds and Radiopharmaceuticals. He is a member of the Board of Directors of The University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc. (CRINC), the Missouri Biotechnology Industry Organization, the Kansas Biosciences Association, the Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute, and the Kansas City Economic Development Corporation. He has received numerous awards, including the Ernst & Young 1992 Entrepenuer of the Year Award and the MRI Council of Principal Scientists Science Award in 1981 and the Enterprise Award in 1997.

Sam D. Campbell is President and CEO of CritiTech, Inc. and has over twenty years of experience in managing early stage life science and technology companies. He currently is also the President of Campbell-Becker, Inc., a company that specializes in assisting early stage companies properly organize and finance their growth. He and his associates have provided start-up capital to numerous life science companies and worked with them to develop their company strategy and its implementation. Most recently, Mr. Campbell has been developing the Lawrence Life Sciences Center. The focus of the Center is to commingle life science companies, researchers, university spin-off companies, and technical/IP support personnel in an effort to foster the growth of the life science industry in the Kansas City/Lawrence area. Part of the support effort involves the construction of a sophisticated bio/chem wet lab that houses early stage life science companies.

Matthew McClorey is President and CEO of Lawrence Regional Technology Center (LRTC). Prior to joining LRTC, Mr. McClorey was the Vice President of Business Development and Portfolio Management for the Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation (KTEC), where he evaluated start-up companies for seed capital investments. He also managed a portfolio of high-technology debt and equity investments, drafted and negotiated investment agreements and provided management consulting services to portfolio companies. Mr. McClorey came to KTEC from Deloitte Consulting, where he was employed as a senior consultant in the communications practice. While at Deloitte, he worked with Fortune 500 companies providing strategy and information technology consulting services. Mr. McClorey earned his J.D. and M.B.A. from the University of Kansas and his B.A. in Business from Benedictine College.

Bala Subramaniam, Ph. D. is a co-founder of CritiTech. He is currently the Dan F. Servey Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering and the Director of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis at the University of Kansas (KU). Dr. Subramaniam obtained a Bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Madras, India and a Ph. D. degree in chemical engineering from the University of Notre Dame. He joined the KU chemical and petroleum engineering department in 1985, and recently served as chair of his department. He has held visiting Professorships at the Institute of Process Engineering, ETH in Zurich (Switzerland), University of Nottingham (UK) and at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Subramaniam's primary research interests are in catalysis, reaction engineering and crystallization, with emphasis on developing sustainable processes.. In recent years, his research has focused on systematically exploiting the tunable physical and transport properties of CO2-based solvents in developing novel catalytic, particle formation and particle coating processes. He has authored 100+ research publications including 12 patents, presented invited seminars at 70+ universities and companies, and delivered keynote/plenary lectures at 20+ international conferences. Dr. Subramaniam has received several awards for his teaching and research, including the Dow Outstanding Young Faculty Award from the American Society for Engineering Education; the Gould Award for Teaching and the Miller Award for Research from the KU School of Engineering; the Silver Anniversary Teaching Award from the University of Kansas, and a Higuchi Research Achievement Award from KU, the highest recognition for research given by the University of Kansas.

Jim Baxendale has worked for over thirty years in the Kansas City biomedical community. Currently, he serves as the Director of Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property for the University of Kansas. Jim’s responsibilities include the commercialization of faculty research, securing patents and copyrights, negotiating licenses, research agreements, confidentiality agreements, material transfer agreements and facilitating the formation of start-up companies. The KU Technology Transfer Office also provides internship opportunities for students and co-facilitates a Biomedical Product Design course in the School of Engineering.
 
Jim holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Medical Technology, a Master of Science in Microbiology from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and an MBA from the Rockhurst University Executive Fellows MBA Program. For the Association of Medical Device Manufacturers, in Washington, D.C., Jim served as a member of the Board of Directors, Secretary and President. He was appointed by the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration to the Medical Device Good Manufacturing Practices Advisory Committee for a 4-year term. Jim served as Chairman of the Silicon Prairie Technology Association Bioscience Network Steering Committee for four years, and has functioned as a Business Counselor, Instructor and Consultant for the Kauffman Foundation Fast Trac program for the last 8 years.

Dr. Joseph A. Fix, Director of Business and Corporate Development and a pharmaceutical industry consultant, has over 25 years experience in the drug delivery and pharmaceutical industry in addition to his experience in working in the micro and nanoparticle pharmaceutical arena. Dr. Fix has held a number of executive positions in the pharmaceutical industry. Most recently he was President and COO of Cydex, Inc. Previously, he was EVP and COO of NanoSystems, Inc., a unit of Elan Corporation. Before joining Elan, he was President and CTO of Yamanouchi Pharma Technologies and Associate Director of Biological Sciences for ALZA Corporation. He began his career with Merck and Company, advancing to Associate Director, Biopharmaceutics for the INTERx research division. Dr. Fix holds a Ph.D. in neurophysiology from the University of Kansas and an MBA from Pepperdine University. He has held adjunct faculty positions at the University of Southern California, Purdue University, and the University of Kansas. He is the author of numerous publications and holds 17 patents in the drug delivery area.

 

 

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