Board of Directors

Jeffrey Stein, Ph.D., President & Chief Executive Officer,

has held executive management positions in the biopharmaceutical industry for the past 20 years. He is also currently a Venture Partner with Sofinnova Ventures in San Francisco where he was a Kauffman Fellow from 2005 to 2007. Prior to joining Sofinnova, Jeff was Executive Vice President, Chief Scientific Officer and a Director of Quorex Pharmaceuticals, a San Diego based anti-infectives company he founded in 1999. Prior to forming Quorex, Jeff was an early employee and Principal Scientist with Diversa Corporation and, before that, Principal Scientist with the Agouron Institute in La Jolla, Ca. He also recently served as Director of Venture Development at UC San Diego. Jeff conducted his postdoctoral studies as an Alexander Hollaender Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech and his graduate work as a NASA Graduate Student Researchers Fellow at UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography.