Achaogen
Industry Advisors

Burton G. Christensen, Ph.D. – Former EVP, Research, Theravance, Inc.; SVP, Chemistry, Merck & Co; inventor of Imipenem, co-inventor of several other antibiotics.

Stephen Kaldor, Ph.D. – CEO, Ambrx; former CSO, Takeda, inventor of Viracept.

Lynn L. Silver, Ph.D. – LL Silver Consulting. Former Senior Investigator in infectious disease research, Merck and Co.

George Miller, Ph.D. – CSO, Blanca Pharmaceuticals; formerly CSO of Microcide; led the development of gentimicin; internationally recognized expert on aminoglycosides.

Seemon H. Pines, Ph.D. – Former SVP, Process Chemistry, Merck & Co. Recipient of Chairman's Award for the commercially viable synthesis of imipenem.

Clinical Advisors

William A. Craig, M.D. – University of Wisconsin, Madison

Jay Fishman, M.D. – MGH, Harvard Medical School

H. Shaw Warren, M.D. – MGH, Harvard Medical School

George L. Drusano, M.D. – Ordway Institute, Albany

Otto Cars, M.D. – Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden

Paul Tulkens, M.D. – Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

Vance Fowler, M.D. – Duke University, Duke Clinical Research Institute

Henry F. "Chip" Chambers, M.D. – UCSF

Academic Advisors

Peter G. Schultz, Ph.D. – Genomics Institute of the Novartis Foundation

Floyd E. Romesberg, Ph.D. – The Scripps Research Institute

Matthew Waldor, Ph.D. – Tufts University

Stanley Falkow, Ph.D. – Stanford University

Regulatory Advisors

Gino Girardi, M.D. – Former FDA clinical reviewer, anti-infectives division, CDER

Hilary Sheevers, Ph.D. – Former FDA drug safety reviewer, anti-infectives division, CDER

Bob Osterberg, Ph.D. – Former FDA drug safety reviewer, anti-infectives division, CDER

Seemon H. Pines, Ph.D. – Former head of Merck Process Research, worldwide

Elizabeth M. Vadas, Ph.D. – Former head of Pharmaceutical R&D, Merck-Frosst


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