Anven Team
Lewis T. "Rusty" Williams | MD, PhD
Co-Founder and Chairman
Founder of Walking Fish Therapeutics, Five Prime Therapeutics and COR Therapeutics
Chief Scientific Officer & board member of Chiron Corporation (now Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Inc.)
Professor of medicine, UCSF and director of Cardiovascular Research Institution and Daiichi Research Center. Also served on the faculties of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
Member of National Academy of Sciences and fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
B.S. Rice University; M.D./Ph.D. Duke University
muralidhar Reddy Moola | PHD
Co-Founder, Board Director and CEO
Assoc. Prof. of chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute; Asst. Prof. of internal medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Published and patented > 50 novel small molecule and peptoid-based technologies
Inventor of the Anven’s core technology platform
PhD from Indian Institute of Chemical Technology
Bill Shelander | MSE, MBA
Co-Founder, Board Director and COO
Faculty of Stanford University and Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
30+ years of VC management and start ups in advanced technologies
Commercialization expert at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
MBA from Stanford University; MS in Chemical Engineering
Ronald Zuckermann | PhD
Co-Founder, Board Director, and Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
Director of Biological Nanostructures, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab http://www.ronznet.com
Invented class of heteropolymers called "Peptoids“ in early 1990’s
A founding chemist at Protos Corp. (drug discovery venture)
PhD from UC Berkeley in Bioorganic Chemistry with Dr. Peter Schultz; published >170 papers, 38 patents
Michael Weiner | MD
Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board
Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, Medicine, Psychiatry and Neurobiology at the University of California, San Francisco
Principle Investigator of Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), the largest observational study in the world for Alzheimer’s disease
Director, Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases, UCSF VA Medical Center, San Francisco, California
Published >900 articles and 70 book chapters. Link http://profiles.ucsf.edu/michael.weiner
B.S. Johns Hopkins University; M.D. SUNY Medical Center; Fellowship at Yale University School of Medicine
NITIN PAREKH | PhD
Scientific and Business Advisory Board
VP/Exec. Director at SK biotek; served on boards of Vybion, Inc, New Jersey Inst. of Tech., and South Carolina biotechnology program
Senior management positions in DSM, Pharmacia-Upjohn (Pfizer), Monsanto, Hoechst, and Boehringer-Knoll
30+ years of drug development, M&A, R&D and manufacturing with technology valuation and implementation
PhD from Boston college and visiting faculty of MIT