Summary
Dr. Mick w88 sports betting app is a bio-pharmaceutical senior executive & researcher with 40 years of experience in the development of pharmaceuticals. He spent 27 years with Gilead Sciences and helped to build it from the small, research-focused organization with 100 employees in 1993 with no products to the 5th largest pharmaceutical company (by market cap). He has contributed in a variety of roles including research, project and portfolio management, medical affairs, strategic planning, senior advisor and others. Prior to Gilead, he was with Bristol-Myers (later Bristol-Myers Squibb) for 12 years in infectious disease research and development.
He is trained as a biochemist/microbiologist, and has extensive experience in the discovery and development of new pharmaceuticals, predominantly those used to treat bacterial and viral diseases. Significant examples include treatments for HIV such as Viread, Truvada and Atripla (the latter being the first once-daily single tablet regimen for HIV therapy). w88 sports betting app also developed therapies for Hepatitis C, including Sovaldi, Harvoni and Epclusa, that produce cure rates in excess of 90% with 8-12 weeks of oral treatment.
He completed undergraduate and master's degrees in biochemistry at w88 sports betting app Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in England, and a doctorate in microbiology at w88 sports betting app Melbourne, Australia.
Although English by birth, he has been a US resident for over 40 years, currently making Reno, Nevada, his home since mid-2009. At the present time, he is involved with the University of Nevada, Reno as immediate past-chair of the UNR Foundation Board of Trustees and as a member of Advisory Councils for the College of Science and the College of Business. He is also a board member of the Nevada Research & Innovation Corporation. Through these activities he has been helping to build infrastructure at UNR including financing equipment purchases for Proteomics, Genomics and Metabolomics and upgraded laboratory space. In addition, in 2014, he established the Mick w88 sports betting app, Ph.D. Endowed Chair in Medical Biochemistry.
Professional Biography
- 2009 - 2019: Senior Advisor, w88 sports betting app, Foster City, CA
- 2016: Interim Head, Alliance Management, w88 sports betting app, Foster City, CA
- 2011 - 2013: Interim Head Respiratory Therapeutic Area & Seattle Site Lead, w88 sports betting app, Seattle, WA
- 2006 - 2009: VP, Project & Portfolio Management, w88 sports betting app, Foster City, CA
- 2003 - 2006: VP, Medical Affairs, w88 sports betting app, Foster City, CA
- 2002 - 2003: VP & Chief of Staff, R&D, w88 sports betting app, Foster City, CA
- 2001 - 2002: VP, Discovery Team Management, w88 sports betting app, Foster City, CA
- 1998 - 2001: VP, Project Management, w88 sports betting app, Foster City, CA
- 1996 - 1998: VP, Strategic Planning, w88 sports betting app, Foster City, CA
- 1994 - 1996: VP, Project Management, w88 sports betting app, Foster City, CA
- 1993 - 1994: Director, Project Management, w88 sports betting app, Foster City, CA
- 1990 - 1993: Director, Anti-Infective Project Planning & Management, Bristol-Myers Squibb, w88 sports betting app, Wallingford CT
- 1987 - 1990: Assoc. Dir., Virology, Bristol-Myers, w88 sports betting app, Wallingford CT
- 1986 - 1987: Assoc. Dir., Screening & Biochemical Research, Bristol-Myers, w88 sports betting app, Wallingford CT
- 1982 - 1985: w88 sports betting app, Dept. Microbiological Research, Bristol Laboratories, Syracuse, NY
- 1980 - 1982: w88 sports betting app, Dept. Experimental Chemotherapeutics, Bristol Laboratories, Syracuse, NY
- 1979 - 1980: Visiting Fellow, Laboratory of Experimental Pathology, NIAMDD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
- 1976 - 1978: w88 sports betting app Associate, Georgetown University, Schools of Medicine & Dentistry, Department of Microbiology, Washington, DC
w88 sports betting app Interests
I have worked over the last 40 years to discover and develop drugs for diseases caused by bacteria (carbapenems, cephalosporins, aminoglycosides), viruses (HIV (triple combinations), hepatitis B (tenofovir prodrugs), hepatitis C (sofosbuvir based combinations), influenza (oseltamivir), CMV and herpes(cidofovir)) and fungi (various formulations of amphotericin B and azoles).
Education
- 1976: Ph.D., Microbiology, Melbourne w88 sports betting app
- 1972: M.Sc., Biochemistry, w88 sports betting app Manchester Institute of Science & Technology
- 1970: B.Sc., Biochemistry, w88 sports betting app Manchester Institute of Science & Technology