JAAN BIOTHERAPEUTICS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Distinguished Professor of Medicine - Director, Advanced Heart Failure Treatment Program - UCSD Medical Center
Barry H. Greenberg, MD, is Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Director of the Advanced Heart Failure Treatment Program at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). After an internal medicine residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital, research training at the Lipid Metabolism Branch of the NHLBI and a fellowship in cardiology at UCSF, he joined the faculty of Oregon Health Sciences University School of Medicine. Dr. Greenberg has been a visiting professor in residence at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London, England and at the Laboratoire de MédicineExpérimentale of the Collège de France in Paris. Dr. Greenberg's research focuses on mechanisms of cardiac dysfunction and developing new heart failure therapies. He has served in the leadership of numerous international multicenter heart failure trials. In addition, Dr. Greenberg directs a laboratory that studies the molecular basis of cardiac remodeling and myocardial fibrosis. Dr. Greenberg is co-editor of Congestive Heart Failure: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Comprehensive Approach to Management, the first comprehensive text in this field and he is a member of the editorial boards of several cardiology and subspecialty journals including JACC: Heart Failure and the European Journal of Heart Failure. Dr. Greenberg is a founding member and past President of the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA). He has been recognized for many years as being one of the "Best Doctors in America" and "Best Doctors in San Diego." Dr. Greenberg received the HFSA's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Co - Founder
Dr. Brar founded Jaan Biotherapeutics in 2015, following 7 years at Zensun USA, where she held various positions including the Vice President of Clinical Research, managing a United States Phase 2 clinical trial for a first in class therapeutic for the treatment of heart failure. Dr. Brar completed her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry from Swansea University in Wales and a Ph.D. in Physiology/Endocrinology from the University of Reading U.K. Dr. Brar has served as a consultant for many years helping companies to develop therapeutics through to clinical testing before founding Jaan Biotherapeutics. Dr. Brar is an inventor/co-inventor of numerous patents. In her spare time Dr. Brar like to spend time with her teenage daughters, walking her rescue American Staffordshire Terrier, cooking and running. She serves on the Board of Directors of her community as well as a member of the Women in Biosciences Founders Forum Group.
Job Titles:
- SVP of R & D at Triumvira
Dr. Andreas Bader is SVP of R&D at Triumvira and has more than 20 years' experience in oncology drug discovery and development. Previously, Dr. Bader acted as Co-Founder and CEO of Orros Biotherapeutics LLC, and as a scientific Co-Founder of Mirna Therapeutics, Inc., where he held multiple leading positions in R&D and led research programs from discovery to the completion of the MRX34 Phase 1 clinical trial, the first miRNA mimic ever to enter clinical testing. Prior to Mirna, Dr. Bader functioned as a Scientific Lead at Asuragen, Inc. Dr. Bader completed his post-doctoral training at The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, and received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and his MSc degree in Biology from the University of Innsbruck, Austria.
Job Titles:
- Corporate Attorney
- Partner at Morrison & Foerster
Jim is a partner at Morrison & Foerster and has extensive experience representing private and public companies and investors in significant business transactions from formation through liquidity. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, venture capital financing, and emerging company counseling. Jim received his bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame and his JD from Harvard University.
Joseph Hansen, CPA/Attorney, is Chief Financial Officer of JaanBiotherapeutics LLC and a member of the City of Oceanside Citizen Oversight Investment Committee. He formerly was CFO for a number of public and private companies including Zensun Science and Technology Co., Ltd Shanghai, PRC, Pacific Ethanol, Inc. (Nasdaq), National RV Holdings, Inc. (formerly NYSE), Zacky Foods/Farms Companies, Avis Enterprises/Intervest (holding companies of Warren Avis, Avis Rent a Car founder), among others. He is co-founder of 4 companies and a former board member of private companies. His early background consisted of employment with Big 4 accounting firms, the practice of law, and editing for the Journal of Taxation. He holds degrees from New York University Graduate School of Law-LLM-Tax, Tulane University School of Law-JD, and University of Wisconsin-Madison-BBA accounting. He also holds a Wisconsin Bar license-inactive and an inactive CPA license.
Founder of SAND IP. European patent attorney and a Chartered UK patent attorney. Mr. Birdi is a graduate of the University of Leeds obtaining a first class honors Master's degree in chemistry.
Job Titles:
- Quality, Chemistry and Manufacturing and Controls
Chemistry manufacturing and controls (CMC) is an integral and important part of the development for any new therapeutic product or treatment. With more than twenty years of pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry experience in Quality Assurance, Quality Control and Development. With over 25 years of experience, Ms. Cao has an excellent understanding of multi-country regulatory requirements in CMC for bringing new product or therapy from laboratory bench to human clinical trials, and in-depth knowledge and expertise in all aspects of CMC and a major contributor for CMC sections US and foreign IND filings. Ms. Cao received her Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Zhengzhou University and her Master's degree from Wuxi Institute of Light Industry (now Jiangnan University) in Food Science and technology.
Stan Roberts is an independent consultant in toxicology, drug metabolism (ADME), pharmacokinetics (PK) and drug development. He has over 35 years of experience in scientific and management positions in large (Sandoz, Abbott & Pfizer) and small (CovX) pharmaceutical companies. His management duties have included being the Global Director for Preclinical ADME/PK at Abbott for over eight years. Stan has also held a variety of leadership positions in toxicology organizations for over 20 years. For preclinical scientific strategy and operations, he has planned, conducted, interpreted and reported all types of toxicology (i.e., mechanism of toxicity, acute, dermal, ocular, ISO compliant medical device, sub chronic, chronic and carcinogenicity) and ADME/PK studies. Stan has created development plans and strategies for many types of pharmaceuticals including numerous classes of small molecules, proteins, monoclonal antibodies, antibody drug conjugates, peptides, nucleotides, glycosaminoglycan's, medical devices and stem cell therapies.
Accomplishments include authoring over 400 internal final reports, major contributions to numerous successful regulatory documents/strategies/submissions (white papers, IND & NDA) and conducting problem solving research that evaluated the human relevance of animal toxicities as well as ADME/PK challenges. Stan has a BS (Animal Science), MS and Ph.D. (Pharmacology & Toxicology) from Purdue and post-doctoral fellowship in Molecular Toxicology (Medical University of South Carolina).