VIA Pharmaceuticals Names Rebecca Taub Senior Vice President of Research and D...(dent of research in metabolicdiseases si...)

Date:1/16/2008

dent of research in metabolic diseases since 2004. While at Roche she oversaw drug discovery programs in diabetes, dyslipidemia and obesity, including target identification, lead optimization and advancement of preclinical candidates into clinical development. From 2000 through 2003, Dr. Taub worked at Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and DuPont Pharmaceutical Company, which was acquired by Bristol-Myers in 2001, in a variety of positions, including executive director of neuroscience biology and executive director of CNS and obesity research.

"VIA's strategy of addressing significant unmet medical needs of patients with cardiovascular disease by targeting the root cause of vascular inflammation is innovative and has significant potential," said Dr. Taub. "I look forward to supporting the excellent clinical and development work that is taking place and ensuring additional clinical candidates are brought forward."

Before becoming a pharmaceutical executive, Dr. Taub served in a number of academic medicine and clinical research positions. She was a tenured professor of genetics and medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine from 1997 to 2001, and she remains an adjunct professor. Earlier she was an assistant professor at the Joslin Diabetes Center of Harvard Medical School, Harvard University and an associate investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She is the author of more than 120 research articles. Dr. Taub received her M.D. from Yale University School of Medicine and B.A. from Yale College.

About VIA Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

VIA Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biotechnology company focused on the development of compounds for the treatment of cardiovascular disease. VIA is building a pipeline of small-molecule drugs that target a significant unmet medical need: reducing inflammation in the blood vessel wall, which is an underlying cause of atherosclerosis and its complications, including heart attack and stroke. The comp
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