Amira Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Expands its Scientific Advisory Board and Appoints Dr. Paul Anderson, Professor Jerold Chun and Professor An...( SAN DIEGO Jan. 8 /- Amira Pharmaceuti...),Health

SAN DIEGO, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Amira Pharmaceuticals, a small molecule pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and early development of compounds to treat inflammatory diseases, today announced the appointment of Dr. Paul Anderson, Professor Jerold Chun and Professor Andrew Tager to its Scientific Advisory Board. This further strengthens the Board that includes Professor Frank Austen (Professor of Respiratory and Inflammatory diseases, Harvard Medical School), Professor Sally Wenzel (Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh), and Professor Joseph Witztum (Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Diego).

Dr. Paul Anderson has more than 40 years of pharmaceutical research and managerial experience. He spent 30 years at Merck Research Laboratories. He retired from Merck in 1994 and joined DuPont-Merck Pharmaceuticals as Senior Vice President for Chemical and Physical Sciences and later, in 2001, he joined Bristol-Myers Squibb as Vice President for Drug Discovery and Site Head. He retired from BMS in 2002. Dr. Anderson is a past president of the American Chemical Society. Dr. Anderson's contributions to science have been recognized by numerous awards, including the National Academy of Sciences Award for Chemistry in Service to Society, the Perkin Medal from the Society of Chemical Industry and the American Chemical Society's highest honor, the Priestly Medal.

Dr. Jerold Chun is a Professor at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA. He is a recognized leader in the field of receptor-mediated Lysophospholipid signaling. Dr. Chun's group studies the development and function of the mammalian nervous system in particular in relation to bioactive lipid signaling. Dr. Chun's group cloned and functionally identified the first lysophospholipid receptor. He has published over 160 manuscripts, and received multiple awards and fellowships including the Medic
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