Executive Team
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Ruobing Xia, MBA
President, Co-Founder
Over 20 years experience in big pharma, managed budgets exceeding $100 million
Led successful product launches resulting in billion-dollar growth
Founder and board member of multiple startups
Responsible for global strategy, business development, sales, marketing, and commercial operations
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Xiuling Lu, PhD
CSO, Co-Founder
Fellow of American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS)
Over 18 years experience in drug formulation development, particularly advancing nanotechnologies for cancer therapy
Key technology inventor with multiple patents
Professor at the University of Connecticut
Served as Chair of the Faculty at the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Technology and Education
Presently holds the mantle of Associate Director at the Center for Pharmaceutical Processing Research, concurrently serving as a leader in the AAPS Nanotechnology Community
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Michael Jay, PhD
CPO, Co-Founder
Over 40 years experience in drug development, imaging agents, and radiopharmaceuticals
Former director of an FDA-registered cGMP facility
Founded five companies; one obtained IND for clinical trials
Professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Alan Parr, PhD
Head of R&D
More than 30 years of experience in radiopharmaceuticals, formulation, CMC, GMP, and IND filing
Former Director of Bio pharmaceuticals and Director of Product Life Extension at GSK
Managing member of BioCeutics LLC
Advisory Board
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Andrew Salner, MD
Clinical Advisor
Medical Director, Hartford HealthCare Cancer Institute at Hartford Hospital
More than 40 years clinical experience in Radiation Oncology
American Cancer Society George Sheehan Humanitarian Award
Lane Adams Quality of Life Award
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Ron Pion, MD
Clinical Advisor
Clinical Professor at the UCLA School of Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
A pioneer in telemedicine and tele-health with more than 30 years of experience
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Jeffrey C. Miller, MBA
Business Advisor
Partner at KASTx Ventures, Co-founder of TSP Therapeutics
Over 25 years in the bio/pharmaceutical industry across small to large companies
Worked in over 15 countries, leading both mature and start-up businesses across numerous therapeutic areas spanning rare diseases, oncology, primary and specialty care
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Al Paz, MBA
Business Advisor
Founder, President, and CEO of TSP Therapeutics, Inc.
Nearly 40 years of experience as a leader in the bio/pharmaceutical industry working on nearly all sizes of business across 10 therapeutic areas, including four in the Oncology space
Conceptualizing and executing market shaping innovations
Consultants
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Jean-Luc Vanderheyden, PhD
Radiopharmaceutical
More than 25 years of experience in radiochemistry and radiopharmacy of imaging agents, including Chemistry, Manufacturing and Controls, Pharmacology and Toxicology sections of IND’s ANDA’s and DMF’s, covering agents as well as other metabolic imaging agents
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David Worthen, PhD JD
CMC
Served on URI faculty in pharmaceutical science, chemical engineering, and neuroscience
Senior scientist, project manager, group leader, and principal investigator at BMS, Alcinous Pharmaceuticals, and Yaupon Therapeutics
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Rosonald R. Bell
Toxicologist
Highly qualified and experienced Board-Certified Toxicologist
Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB)
Over 30 years of experience in the pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry
Held leadership positions at Searle/Pfizer, Indivior, Epizyme, and Viridan Therapeutics
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Daniel T. Dransfield, PhD
Early Clinical Development
Experience in development of companion diagnostics and early clinical development programs including regulatory filing
Project Leader/Program Director on multiple pre-clinical oncology programs which advanced into development of were successfully partnered externally