NeoStem, Inc. Appoints International Expert in Endocrinology and Pharmacology as Vice President of Drug Development and Regulato...(inology. Previously he served as Chief M...),Health

Date:7/6/2009

inology. Previously he served as Chief Medical Officer at Manhattan Pharmaceuticals, Inc., after serving as Therapeutic Head of the Worldwide Medical Endocrine Care group at Pfizer Inc, New York and, earlier, as Vice President, Global Healthcare Research & Outcomes and Senior Director of Medical & Scientific Affairs at Schering-Plough Corp., NJ, where he was involved in the joint venture with Merck in the clinical development of the novel cholesterol medication, ezetimibe (Zetia). Dr. Harris earned his MD from the Louis Pasteur Faculty of Medicine, University of Strasbourg, France, and his Ph.D. in endocrinology from Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He was appointed Associate Professor of Medicine at UCLA School of Medicine and Director of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology in the Department of Medicine and Medical Director of the Dept of Technology Development and Transfer and Clinical Trials at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Harris during his tenure at Sandoz (Novartis) Pharma in Switzerland, developed octreotide (Sandostatin(R)) for the treatment of hormone producing tumors of the gut and pituitary. He is currently Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology at NYU Medical School and Visiting Professor of Medicine in the Dept of Endocrinology at Liege University Medical School, Belgium and in the Dept of Clinical Pharmacology at the University Hospital of Lausanne in Switzerland. Dr. Harris is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the Royal College of Physicians (UK), the Royal Society of Medicine (UK) and the American College of Clinical Pharmacology. He has served on the editorial boards of several international peer reviewed medical journals and has authored 119 peer reviewed scientific papers in the fields of endocrinology, diabetes mellitus, gastroenterology, oncology, cardiology, allergy, immunology and respiratory medicine. He served on the NIH Center for Scientific Review Special Emphasis Panel for Clinical Cardiovas
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