Past Positions
1974, 1977: Cornell University, NIH postdoctoral fellowship, Department of Chemistry
1974-1976: ICIPE, P.O. Box 30772, Nairobi, Kenya; Research Scientist in Chemistry Unit
1977-1996: Assistant, Associate, Full Professor of Chemistry, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York
1992-1996: Professor of Biochemistry and Cellular Biology, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York
1992-1996: Director, Center for Biotechnology, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York
1996-2002: Chair, Medicinal Chemistry, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
1996-2018: Adjunct Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry, Bioengineering, and Surgery, UUtah
1996-2018: Presidential Professor, Medicinal Chemistry, UUtah
1997-2005: CSO, Echelon Biosciences Inc., Salt Lake City, UT
2003-2005: CSO, SentrX Surgical, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT
2005-2009: Senior Scientific Advisor, Carbylan BioSurgery, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
2005-2015: Senior Scientific Advisor, SentrX Animal Care, Salt Lake City, UT
2011-2014: Science Advisor, OrthoCyte/BioTime, Inc., Alameda, CA
2017-2019: Chief Science Officer, Symic Bio, Inc., Emeryville, CA
Business and Entrepreneurial Experience
- Co-founder and Principal Scientific Advisor, Clear Solutions Biotech, Inc. (Stony Brook, NY, 1992)
- Co-founder and CSO of Echelon Biosciences, Inc (Salt Lake City, UT, 1997)
- Co-founder and CSO, Sentrx Surgical, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT, 2004)
- Co-founder and Senior Scientific Advisor, Carbylan BioSurgery, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA, 2005)
- Co-founder, and CSO, and science advisor for Sentrx Animal Care, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT, 2005)
- Co-founder and CSO, Glycosan BioSystems, Inc (Salt Lake City, UT, 2006)
- Co-founder and CSO, GlycoMira Therapeutics (Salt Lake City, UT, 2008)
- Co-founder and President & CEO, Metallosensors, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT, 2011)
- Cofounder and Manager, Deuteria Agrochemicals LLC . (Salt Lake City, UT, 2013)
- Co-founder and Manager, Deuteria Biomaterials LLC (2013)
Corporate Consulting Experience


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Allergan
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Centre de Recherche Pierre Fabre
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Kirin Life Sciences
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MedChem
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New England Nuclear
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Sandoz
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Serono Pharmaceutical Research Institute
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Velsicol
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Symic Bio
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Jade Therapeutics
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Elastin Specialities
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ContraDyn
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University Medical Pharmaceuticals
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Aeterna Zentaris
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Novozymes Biopolymers
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Cleveland Clinic Foundation
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Brickell Biotech
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Organovo