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Dr. Peter Verlander, PhD
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Dr.
Verlander was most recently the Associate Director for Strategic
Development of the Laboratory for Molecular Medicine (LMM) within
the Harvard Medical School - Partners Healthcare Center for Genetics
and Genomics, where he helped transform the vision of personalized
medicine into reality by translating research discoveries into
breakthrough molecular diagnostic tests. Dr. Verlander led the
team that developed the first clinical test for detection of EGFR
mutations predicting therapeutic response in lung adenocarcinoma.
Dr.
Verlander is a molecular geneticist with nearly 15 years of experience
in various aspects of human genetics in both academia and industry,
including research at The Rockefeller University in New York on
the molecular genetics of Fanconi anemia (FA), a DNA breakage
disorder leading to bone marrow failure and increased risk of
leukemia.. In 2000, Dr. Verlander came to Boston to join Millennium
Predictive Medicine’s Patient Management effort before joining
the LMM in 2003.
Dr.
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Dr.
Jeffrey Gruneich, PhD
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Dr. Gruneich
was most recently a World Wide Provider Solution Sales specialist
in IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences, focused on translational
medicine. He worked with government, pharmaceutical, biotechnology,
and academic clients to identify and implement IT systems to help
them accomplish their business and strategic goals. Prior to joining
IBM, Dr. Gruneich was Chief Business Officer of Infoceutics, Inc.,
an anti-microbial bioinformatics company. He also co-founded and
was Chief Strategy Officer for eTechtransfer.com, an online exchange
for licensing life science intellectual property. He worked as
a research scientist developing new immunodiagnostic tests for
Charm Sciences.
Dr. Gruneich
received his PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania,
developing new gene therapy technologies.
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Howard
Greenman
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Mr. Greenman
most recently led the strategic marketing function for Philips
Medical System’s Remote Patient Management Division, part
of Philip’s New Ventures organization. In this role, Mr.
Greenman was responsible for commercialization and partnership
strategy for a disease management platform technology. Prior to
Philips, Mr. Greenman was Director of Business Development for
Ardais Corporation, a biorepository management company offering
software technology as well as a library of human biospecimens
and molecular services for drug discovery. Mr. Greenman was the
founder of medXtend Corporation, a venture backed healthcare services
company providing medical devices and services for use by Radiologists
and Primary Care Physicians. Additionally, Mr. Greenman worked
in a variety of healthcare consulting roles within Accenture’s
Healthcare Practice, KPMG Peat Marwick’s Healthcare Strategy
Group, Oracle, and the Boston Consulting Group.
Mr. Greenman
holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business in Healthcare
Management.
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