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Published on: 6/17/2002
Last Visited: 6/17/2002
Cesar R. Collado joins as Vice President of Business Development and Commercialization and Holly M. Marcum joins as Executive Director of Business Development and Commercialization.
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Mr. Collado and Ms. Marcum each have significant business development experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries and will be responsible for commercial development activities at Amphora Discovery.
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"We are excited to have Cesar and Holly leading our business development and commercialization efforts at Amphora.
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Cesar brings significant breadth and experience doing strategic transactions for Eli Lilly & Co., and Holly has extensive business development experience in biotechnology and life sciences.
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"Cesar and Holly bring complementary experiences and skill sets which will enable Amphora to fully leverage our technologies for strategic value creation."
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Ms. Marcum has over ten years of experience in the biotechnology and life science industries in positions of increased responsibility in corporate business development and sales and marketing.Most recently, Ms. Marcum was Senior Director of Corporate Development for Incyte Genomics, where she negotiated, structured and implemented numerous strategic partnerships with companies utilizing Incyte's gene information and intellectual property for commercial purposes.Prior to Incyte, Ms. Marcum held various key positions in business development and sales and marketing at Perkin Elmer Life Sciences Corporation and Life Technologies, Inc.Ms. Marcum received her B.A. in Molecular Biology from Middlebury College and is currently completing her MBA at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.
Amphora Discovery Corp. is a newly-formed drug discovery company whose aim is to improve the drug discovery and development process and generate high quality drug candidates across important classes of therapeutic targets.Amphora is leveraging its know-how and exclusive technology rights in microfluidics to generate and commercialize a knowledge base of chemical genomics information of unprecedented quality and scale.The chemical genomics knowledge base, which will detail the interactions of small molecules against a broad array of biological targets, will include data on potency, specificity, drug absorption, metabolism, toxicology and physical properties of individual molecules.The information will be instrumental in preclinical drug discovery, acceleration of target validation, lead identification and medicinal chemistry, as well as in increasing the success rate of drugs through clinical development.Utilization of information of this quality and breadth will revolutionize the drug discovery process, shortening the period from biology discovery to useful medicine and enabling the development of better drugs, faster and more economically.