DR. RICHARD GAMMANS
Bio-Medical Scientist
Dr. Gammans has 40 years of professional experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry managing the discovery, selection, pre-clinical and clinical safety and efficacy testing, scale-up and manufacturing, and registration of new chemical entities with the United States FDA and its foreign counterparts throughout the world. The vast majority of his career has been in private industry working on commercial projects including his work as Senior Scientist with Bristol Myers, while his academic appointments have been in teaching and advisory roles. Dr. Gammans has been a key participant or manager of research advancing over 30 candidates to IND status and on 8 new chemical entity NDAs, along with their foreign counterparts. His didactic training is in Synthetic and Analytical Organic Chemistry, Structure Elucidation, Enzymology and Molecular Pharmacology/Toxicology, and in Management Sciences, which is valuable to projects when integrating and interpreting the findings, and planning, leading, organizing and controlling research and development activities.
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