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


C-DOCTOR



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