Leadership

<br /> <strong>Richard Rose, M.D.</strong><br /> <em>Co-Founder, Chairman of the Board, CEO, Chief Medical Officer, and Member of the Executive Committee</em>

Richard Rose, M.D.
Co-Founder, Board Chair, CEO, and Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Rose is an experienced health care executive with broad experience in science, medicine and medical product development. He is a graduate of Yale College and the Harvard Medical School, where he was an associate professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospitals. Dr. Rose is an adjunct associate professor of medicine at the UCSD School of Medicine. He served as vice president for drug development at Cytel Corporation. Dr. Rose was a managing director of MPM Capital from 1995 to 1996, and in this capacity he was responsible for biotechnology advisory and investment activities on the West Coast of the U.S. and in Japan. From 1996 to 2000, Dr. Rose was president and CEO of StemCells Inc., a public biotechnology company.