Dr Shepard- portfolio11 Mar 2018 08:51
Dr. Shepard built successful programmes at various biotechnology companies. He helped launch Canji, Inc., the first company to successfully traverse the gene therapy regulatory framework to initiate a clinical trial with adenovirus-p53, a disabled adenovirus encoding the p53 tumor suppressor gene, for drug-resistant ovarian cancer. Shepard helped to engineer Canji's relationship with Schering-Plough, which acquired Canji. Likewise, Shepard was the founder, president and CSO of Receptor BioLogix, which focused on developing protein therapies to treat cancer, autoimmune, metabolic and other diseases, and was acquired by Symphogen. NewBiotics, Inc., which Shepard also founded, invented a new class of therapeutics, called Enzyme Catalyzed Therapeutic Agents. That company was acquired by Kiadis Pharma.