President and Chief Scientific Officer

Management and Scientific Advisors

Biotech/Small Pharma Consultants

Clinician Network and Consultants

Intellectual Property and Legal Consultant

Administrative and Financial Consultants

Software Consultant

President and Chief Scientific Officer

Frank H. Burton, Ph.D.

Dr. Burton is also company Founder. To maintain the company's basic-research pipeline he also retains part-time his faculty and principal investigator status at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities' Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology, Department of Pharmacology, Graduate Program in Neuroscience, and National Cancer Institute-Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Dr. Burton's contributions in commercial biotechnology include two biotech patents and the co-design of genome expression-profiling technology that led to the founding of two other biotechnology and bioinformatics companies, Digital Gene Technologies, Inc., and Neurome, Inc., both of La Jolla (San Diego), CA. He has authored 27 scientific research publications and obtained 17 academic research grants, covering discoveries and methods in molecular genetics, genomics and genome expression analysis, biotechnology, genetic and physiological engineering, endocrinology, cancer genetics and biology, neurobiology and behavior, and pharmacology.

Dr. Burton also has served as director of the University's Medical School Pharmacology courses, and is one of its top-ranked lecturers. He has served as grant reviewer for the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the University of Leuven Research Council and the Israel Research Foundation, as manuscript reviewer for 12 scientific journals, and in five professional societies and consortia (FASEB, ASPET, SFN, AAAS, MNCAS).

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Management and Scientific Advisors (alphabetical)

Sol J. Barer, Ph.D., President and COO,
Celgene Corporation, 7 Powder Horn Drive,
Warren NJ

Karl W. Hasel, Ph.D., President, Rodin, Inc.,
and Former CSO, Digital Gene Technologies,
Inc., La Jolla, CA.

S. W. Kim, M.D., Professor, University of
Minnesota Dept. Psychiatry, Minneapolis,
MN. Founder of U of M Gambling Disorder
Clinic and inventor of opioid receptor
antagonist treatments for compulsive
gambling.

Michael J. McGrath, J.D., Ph.D.,
Patent Attorney, Crompton, Seager &
Tufte, LLC, 1221 Nicollet Ave., Suite 800,
Minneapolis, MN, 55403.

Susan Nicol, Ph.D., L.P., Senior Clinical
Psychologist,Physicians of Hennepin County
Medical Center, Hennepin Faculty Associates,
Minneapolis; SBIR Grants Advisor, Former
NIH SBIR Committee Reviewer.

Ronald J. Shebuski, Ph.D., President,
CVR2000, LLC, Cardiovascular Research
Consulting, and Former President,
CarePoint Diagnostics, Inc., Bergland, MI.

J. Gregor Sutcliffe, Ph.D., Founder and
Board of Directors,Digital Gene Technologies,
Inc., and Member, The Scripps Research
Institute, Dept.of Molecular Biology,
La Jolla, CA.

Doreen Dornbush Williams,
Nutraceutical Advisor, Angwin, CA.

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Biotech/Small Pharma Consultants (alphabetical)

Floyd A. Bloom, M.D., Ph.D., Founder
and President, Neurome, Inc., and Chairman,
The Scripps Research Institute Dept. of
Neuropharmacology, La Jolla, CA.

Pat Dillon, M.B.A., SBIR & Federal Research
Grants and Contracts Consultant,
2322 Towerview Circle, Bloomington, MN 55431

Suzanne Dvorak, President,
Algos Therapeutics, Inc., St. Paul, MN.

Gretchen K. Unger, President,
GeneSegues, Inc., Wayzata, MN.

David T. Wong, Ph.D., President,
DT Wong Consulting LLC, and
Former Lilly Research Fellow,
Lilly Research Laboratories and
Head of Prozac Development,
Eli Lilly, Corp., Indianapolis, IN.

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Clinician Network and Consultants (alphabetical)

Teresa C. Burton, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor, USM-
Long Beach; Technology Specialist,
Pass Christian School District,
Central Administrative Office, Pass Christian, MS.

Donald Gilbert, M.D., Director,
TS Clinic and Pediatric Pharmacology
Research Center, Cincinnati Children's
Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC),
Cincinnati, OH.

Christian R. Komor, Psy.D.,
Clinical Psychology and Naturopathy
Clinic, 3501 Lake Eastbrook Blvd., SE,
Suite 250, Grand Rapids, MI.

Lorrin (Larry) M. Koran, M.D.,
Stanford University Medical Center,
Dept. Psychiatry and OCD Clinic,
Stanford, CA.

Susan Nicol, Ph.D., L.P., Senior Clinical
Psychologist, Physicians of Hennepin
County Medical Center, Hennepin Faculty
Associates, Minneapolis, MN.

Floyd R.(Randy) Sallee, M.D., Ph.D.,
Professor and Vice Chairman,
University of Cincinnati Dept. Psychiatry,
Cincinnati, OH.

Tom Yarnell, Ph.D., K-12 Child
Psychologist, Pass Christian School District,
Central Administrative Office,
Pass Christian, MS.

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Intellectual Property and Legal Consultant

Michael J. McGrath, J.D., Ph.D.,
Patent Agent and Attorney, Crompton,
Seager & Tufte, LLC, 1221 Nicollet Ave.,
Suite 800, Minneapolis, MN, 55403.

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Administrative and Financial Consultants (alphabetical)

Richard J. Ahmann III, Insurance Consultant
and Broker, and President, RJ Ahmann Co.,
7555 Market Place Drive, Eden Prairie,
MN 55344

Dave Durenberger, M.B.A.,
Administrative Director,
Elliot Park Lifesciences Institute (EPLI),
Minneapolis MN.

Kevin Hannigan, Executive Recruiter;
President, Roland Mann & Associates, Inc.,
Plymouth MN 55447.

Harlan T. Jacobs, Accounting and Investment
Consultant; President, Genesis Business
Centers, Ltd., and Former CFO, FilmTec
Corp., Columbia Heights, MN.

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Software Consultant

Robert M. Rohland, Computer Software
Engineer, Montrose, MN

 

 

 

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