Management Board

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Changhua Qiu, Ph.D.

Chang has over twenty years investment experience including venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) investments in biotech companies, medical device companies, and CRO companies. Chang has been deeply involved in every aspects of the VC/PE investment process from initial sourcing, due diligence research, deal structuring and negotiation, valuation, project management, board oversight, on-going problem solving, fund raising, exit strategy planning, M&A negotiation, IPO preparation, to final exit. Chang was a star analyst by WSJ Annual Analyst Survey, and earned a master of business administration degree from Columbia Business School and a doctorate from Colorado School of Mines. Chang is helping the Company in business development, corporate strategy, and investor outreach and communications.

CEO

 

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Tao Tan, M.D., Ph.D.

Tao Tan is the Vice President of Research and Development at TRIM-edicine.  She obtained her M.D. training in China and received a Ph.D. degree from the Graduate Program in Physiology and Integrative Biology at the Rutgers University – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and joined TRIM-edicine in 2009.  She has co-authored over 30 publications in areas of molecular medicine, and is recipient of an Oversea Young Investigator Award from China.  Dr. Tan leads the Research and Development effort at TRIM-edicine, as well as the management of the company.

Vice President

 

Scientific Advisory Board

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William T. Abraham, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.C., F.A.H.A., F.E.S.C., F.R.C.P.

William T. Abraham is Professor of Internal Medicine and Chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. Dr. Abraham earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine and fellowships in Cardiovascular Disease and Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Dr. Abraham spends the majority of his clinical time managing heart failure patients in the inpatient and outpatient settings. Dr. Abraham has been recognized as one of the “Best Doctors in America” for twelve consecutives years and has been ranked among the top 10% of physicians nationally in patient satisfaction. Dr. Abraham’s research interests include hemodynamic and neurohormonal mechanisms in heart failure, sleep disordered breathing in heart failure, and clinical drug and device trials in heart failure. Dr. Abraham has authored more than 700 original papers, abstracts, book chapters, and review articles. He has also received grants from the National Institutes of Health, American College of Cardiology, and Aetna Quality Care Foundation and has participated as a site Principal Investigator in more than 100 multicenter clinical drug and device trials. As an essential scientific advisory board member, Dr. Abraham will provide leadership for both the pre-clinical and clinical studies related to translational application of MG53 for unmet medical need.

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Elizabeth John, Ph.D.

Dr. John has over twenty years of experience in pharmaceutical development. She also has extensive in project management and regulatory affairs. She has worked on many IND applications of drugs and biologics and has interacted with US, Canadian, New Zealand and Australian regulatory authorities. She was the Manager of Product Development and Quality Control at Neorx Corporation in Seattle where she played a key role in the development of the skeletal targeted radiotherapeutic product, Dr. John served as the Director of Pharmaceutical Development, NewBiotics, Inc and Celmed Biosciences, Montreal, the company that acquired NewBiotics in 2004. She joined Proacta, Inc. in 2005 as Vice President of Pharmaceutical Development / Regulatory Affairs and was responsible for writing and filing the company’s first IND.Dr. John joined Centegen, Inc. in 2007 as the Vice President of Drug Development and was responsible for managing Centegen’s non-clinical activities. She served as V.P., CMC at EnzymeRx, which was acquired by 3SBio in 2010. Dr. John received her Ph.D. in Chemistry from Rutgers University and conducted  her post-doctoral research at Purdue University followed by 3 years as Research Associate at Thomas Jefferson Hospital.

 

Company IP Consultant

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Rick Matos, Ph.D.

Ric k Matos, Ph.D. is the founder of Innovar, L.L.C.  He has over thirty years of experience in the pharmaceutical arena as researcher, patent practitioner and consultant and over twenty-five years of experience as a patent practitioner.  He is an author of scientific articles and is an inventor of pharmaceutical and chemical process technologies.  By integrating IP, business and R&D strategies and by building and managing robust large patent portfolios, he has helped client startup corporations raise capital and achieve valuations of tens to hundreds of millions of dollars before being sold or even going public. Many domestic and international pharmaceutical products are covered by patents he has prosecuted.  Dr. Matos earned his doctorate in Bioorganic Chemistry from Texas A&M University after having completed his studies on the chemical and enzymatic synthesis of penicillin, amino acids and other natural products.  He worked for DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical Company as a research scientist primarily on biotech large-scale process development and drug discovery in many therapeutic areas while advancing to Project Leader within the R&D department.  After helping establish the pharmaceutical IP practice in the Dallas office of a major firm, Dr. Matos founded Innovar March of 2000.

Founder

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Jianjie Ma, Ph.D.

Dr. Jianjie Ma, Ph.D., is the Founder of TRIM-edicine. He holds the Karl P. Klassen Chair of Thoracic Surgery in the Department of Surgery at The Ohio State University (OSU). He is an OSU Davis Heart Lung Research Institute Investigator and serves on the advisory committee of the Center for Regenerative Medicine and Cell- Based Therapies in the College of Medicine. Dr. Ma obtained his bachelor’s degree in Physics from Wuhan University in China and Ph.D. in Physiology and Biophysics at Baylor College of Medicine. He serves on the editorial board of several major scientific journals and has authored or co-authored over 150 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals. He was an Established Investigator of the American Heart Association, and has frequently served as study section members for the National Institutes of Health. His research interests are in gene discovery and protein therapy in geriatric medicine, tissue repair, muscular dystrophy, cardiovascular disease, and cancer biology.

 

Founder