Scientific Advisory Board

Darron R. Brown, M.D. – Dr. Brown is a world renowned immunologist and expert in the field of infectious diseases. Dr. Brown is currently a Professor of Medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN. Dr. Brown is also a Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the Indiana University School of Medicine. In addition to these duties, Dr. Brown is an attending physician at the Veterans Administration Medical Center and Infectious Diseases Outpatient Clinic, Indianapolis, IN, and also at the Indiana University Medical Center. Dr. Brown is widely regarded as an expert in the field of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) infection and has received several awards and fellowships from the National Institutes of Health, American Cancer Society and the pharmaceutical industry to study various aspects of HPV infection and disease. Dr. Brown has several leading publications in the field of HPV disease and is leading researcher in the field.

Gregory L. Conn, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer. - Dr. Conn has over 35 years of drug development expertise, including the development of antiviral and anticancer drugs. Dr. Conn has experience taking drugs through complete development and commercialization. He is a graduate of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he obtained both his M.S. and Ph.D. in biochemistry. Dr. Conn started his professional career at Merck, Sharpe and Dohme. He was a leading scientist at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, where he established and headed various groups in the Cell and Molecular Biology and Drug Discovery departments. He was a Director in the Process Development department at Covance Biotechnology Services Inc., a contract research and development and drug manufacturing organization. He supervised both the Analytical Development teams which were responsible for all drug characterization, method development and drug stability studies and program teams developing drug manufacturing processes. He has expertise across all phases of the drug development process including commercialization of drugs, FDA and regulatory requirements. He is also the co-inventor of 8 drug patents.

Mark Einstein, M.D. - Dr. Einstein is one of the world’s leading experts in HPV disease including cervical cancer. He is currently an attending physician in the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Jacobi Medical center in NY. He is also the Director of Clinical Research, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women’s Health at the Albert Einstein Cancer Center and the Montefiore Medical Center in NY. He is a tenure track professor of Gynecologic Oncology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Einstein has published widely in the field of HPV-related cancer and oncology. He has worked with the FDA in designing clinical trials for cervical cancer and has been a clinical consultant to several companies including Merck during the development of Gardasil®. Dr. Einstien is a peer reviewer for leading cancer and infectious disease journals. He has received several NIH, WHO and NCI awards to study HPV infections and cancers.

Leaf Huang, Ph.D. – Dr. Huang is the Fred N. Eshelman Distinguished Professor and Chair, Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is a renowned expert in the field of drug delivery and is the inventor of PDS Biotechnology Corporation’s Versamune™ technology and a cofounder of the company. Dr. Huang’s research has been in the areas of gene therapy and drug delivery. He produced the first ever liposome gene-delivery clinical trial in 1992. In 2004, he received the Alec D. Bangham Achievement Award, the highest honor in liposome drug delivery. He co-founded LipoGen and Rgene. Both companies were sold successfully. Dr. Huang holds a B.S. in physics and a Ph.D. in biophysics from Michigan State University.

Michel Klein, M.D. - Dr. Klein is CEO of CANVAC, Canadian Network of Vaccines and Immunotherapies, and Deputy CEO of Etna Biotech, Italy. He is one of the world’s leading authorities on vaccine development and immunology. He was formerly Vice-President Research of Pasteur Mérieux Connaught Canada and Vice President of Aventis Pasteur. In 1978, he became Professor of Immunology at University of Toronto, where he held cross-appointments in Medicine, Pathology and Biochemistry, and Director of the Laboratory of Immunology at Toronto Western Hospital. He is the author of more than 200 scientific publications and 500 patents in immunology, molecular biology and vaccinology and is a knight in the order of the French Legion d’Honneur. Dr Klein received an MD from Faculty of Medicine of Paris and a diploma in immunology from Institut Pasteur in 1969.

Lisa Rohan, Ph.D. - Dr. Rohan currently holds appointments as Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the School of Pharmacy and the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences in the School of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. Additionally, she is an Assistant Investigator at the Magee Women’s Research Institute where among her other duties she holds a position on the Biotechnology Advisory Board for the Institute. She was formerly Director of Clinical Studies at Biodecision Laboratories and very frequently dealt with the FDA in designing and implementing clinical studies. She is an expert in drug delivery and the development of drugs for infectious disease. Dr. Rohan obtained a B.S. in chemical engineering from West Virginia University and a Ph.D. in pharmaceutics from the University of Pittsburgh.