Advisors

Dale L. Barnard Ph.D.

Dr. Barnard's principle research at Utah State University has been in antiviral chemotherapy and toxicology, both in antiviral screening and in secondary in vivo antiviral studies supported by National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Army Medical Institute, and various pharmaceutical companies. Current research focuses on developing treatments for SARS-CoV, influenza H5N1, and viruses of biodefense importance. Dr. Barnard is internationally recognized with over 60 research publications.

Honors and Awards:

President, Intermountain Branch American Society for Microbiology, 1995-1996, 2001-2002
Mortar Board Top Professor for 1999-2000
Top Professor and International Student Council Professor of the Year, Utah State University, 2000
Joe E. Whitesides Scholar-Athlete Recognition Award for the year 2001
Invited speaker, 2nd International conference on Community Acquired Pneumonia, 2005

Email: dale.barnard@usu.edu

Richard Horuk Ph.D.

Dr. Horuk has 20+ years of experience in R&D in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry. For three years he served as Director of Immunology at Berlex Biosciences, leading a group of 28 people. He has experience in taking drugs from concept to phase II clinical trials. A recent focus of his work has been to identify novel therapeutics that target G-protein coupled receptors to treat immunological disorders such as multiple sclerosis. Dr. Horuk has an excellent track record of achievement in drug discovery from the bench to the clinic. Dr. Horuk has served as an Editor for the Journal of Biological Chemistry and his scientific accomplishments are internationally recognized with over 160 publications.

Email: horuk@pacbell.net

Aragen Biosciences

Aragen Bioscience offers cell line development, protein expression and purification, molecular biology, cell biology immunology, and diverse in vivo services to the biotech and pharmaceutical industries. Their corporate offices and in vitro laboratories are located in Morgan Hill, California at the south end of Silicon Valley. Aragen and its predecessor, Sierra BioSource, have been operating in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1993.

www.aragenbio.com

TekTeam LLC

TekTeam is a group of highly experienced professionals that has been successfully serving the medical industry since 1990. TekTeam is dedicated to providing solutions that improve the technology, safety, efficacy and cost of pharmaceuticals, biologics, and medical devices by assisting clients with the increasing demands and complexity of regulatory requirements, their interpretation, and implementation.