Industry Advisory Board
William Starling
William N. Starling is Managing Director of Synergy Life Science Partners, LP, a $143 million Venture Capital Partnership and Chief Executive Officer of Synecor, LLC, (Synecor) a business generator of… read more
George Ligler
George Ligler is a private consultant in Fuquay Varina, North Carolina. He has extensive experience in information management and software and computer system engineering.
John Ryals
John Ryals, Ph.D. is President and Chief Executive Officer of Metabolon, a biotechnology firm headquartered in RTP that focuses on a systems biology approach to understanding the metabolic signatures… read more
Christy Shaffer
Dr. Shaffer has served as a director of our company since January 2012. Since 2011, Dr. Shaffer has served as a Venture Partner with Hatteras Venture Partners, an investment firm, and as Managing Dire… read more
Janie Fouke
Dr. Janie Fouke has long been active in the field of biomedical engineering.From 1981 to 1999, Dr. Fouke rose through the faculty ranks at Case Western Reserve University with teaching and research in… read more
Research Areas:
- Rehabilitation Engineering
Sheila Mikhail
Sheila Mikhail co-founded and was the initial CEO of AskBio from 2002 through 2007. Ms. Mikhail left the company to become CEO of NanoCor Therapeutics, Inc., an AskBio SPE. Most recently, Ms. Mikhail… read more
Howard Rosen
Mr. Rosen serves on the board of directors of AcelRx, Inc., Alcobra, Ltd. (Chairman since 2014), Entrega, Inc., and Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. He has been serving as interim CEO of AcelRx since April… read more
Peter Johnson
Peter C. Johnson, M.D., is the president and CEO of Scintellix, LLC, a biomedical technology consulting company in Raleigh, NC and the VP, R&D and Medical and Scientific Affairs, Vancive Medical T… read more
Brian Miller
Brian Miller, M.D., M.B.A., M.P.H. is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Business (courtesy) at the Johns Hopkins University, where he is a practicing hospitalist, health policy researcher, and he… read more
Andy Doraiswamy
A UNC Chapel Hill Ph.D. graduate who is the founder and CEO of Koya Medical, a team dedicated to transforming chronic lymphatic and venous disease. Andy also serves as Chairman and board director with… read more