Samuel Saks
Corporate Officer/Principal bij PROTAGONIST THERAPEUTICS, INC.
Profiel
Samuel R.
Saks was the founder of Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. founded in 2003, where he served as Chief Executive Officer until 2009.
He currently holds positions as Chairman at Quanta Therapeutics, Inc., Director at Bullet Biotechnology, Inc., Velocity Pharmaceutical Development LLC, NuMedii, Inc., and Advisor-Clinical Development at Protagonist Therapeutics, Inc. Dr. Saks received his undergraduate and doctorate degrees from the University of Illinois.
Actieve functies van Samuel Saks
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PROTAGONIST THERAPEUTICS, INC. | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
Quanta Therapeutics, Inc.
Quanta Therapeutics, Inc. BiotechnologyHealth Technology Quanta Therapeutics, Inc. develops biotechnologies. The American company was founded in 2018 by Cameron Pitt, Frank McCormick. Perry D. Nisen has been the CEO of the company since 2021. | Chairman | - |
NuMedii, Inc.
NuMedii, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services NuMedii, Inc. discovers and de-risks effective new drugs by translating Life Sciences Big Data into therapies. Its Big Data technology, originally developed at Stanford University, utilizes large amounts of scientific data together with proprietary biological network-based algorithms to discover drug-disease connections and biomarkers that are predictive of efficacy. The firm translates these predictions into novel de-risked drug candidates and partners with pharmaceutical companies for development and commercialization. The company was founded by Gini Deshpande, Joel Dudley and Atul J. Butte in 2008 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. | Director/Board Member | 01-01-2013 |
Velocity Pharmaceutical Development LLC
Velocity Pharmaceutical Development LLC Drugstore ChainsRetail Trade Velocity Pharmaceutical Development LLC develops pharmaceutical drugs. It identifies drug candidates, target markets and designing and managing outsourced clinical trials. The firm seeks to acquire promising drug candidates, generally within a year of their entering human clinical trials or after initial human clinical data have been generated. The company was founded by David Collier, Ed Schnipper, Jim Larrick and Andy Perlman in 2011 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA. | Director/Board Member | 01-01-2011 |
Bullet Biotechnology, Inc.
Bullet Biotechnology, Inc. BiotechnologyHealth Technology Bullet Biotechnology, Inc. develops active immunotherapies to stimulate a person’s own immune system to overcome diseases. Its technology educates the immune system to targeting specific cells that are causing disease. The firm's pipeline includes therapeutic vaccines for cancer, multi-specific antibody capsid products, therapeutic vaccines for autoimmune diseases, and other vaccines. The company was founded by Diego Fonstad, James R. Swartz, Willie Quinn and Thomas Theriault in September 2011 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA. | Director/Board Member | 01-01-2012 |
Eerdere bekende functies van Samuel Saks
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PDL BIOPHARMA, INC. | Director/Board Member | 30-08-2019 |
TONIX PHARMACEUTICALS HOLDING CORP. | Director/Board Member | 21-08-2018 |
Assertio Therapeutics, Inc.
Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. engages in the manufacture and distribution of pharmaceutical products to treat pain and other central nervous system conditions. Its brands include Gralise, Zipsor, Lazanda, Cambia, NUCYNTA ER and NUCYNTA. The firm focuses on neurology, orphan and specialty medicines. The company was founded by John W. Shell on August 7, 1995 and is headquartered in Lake Forest, IL. | Director/Board Member | 01-03-2017 |
AUSPEX PHARMACEUTICALS INC | Director/Board Member | 01-05-2015 |
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Opleiding van Samuel Saks
University of Illinois | Doctorate Degree |
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XOMA CORPORATION | Health Technology |
PROTAGONIST THERAPEUTICS, INC. | Health Technology |
TONIX PHARMACEUTICALS HOLDING CORP. | Health Technology |
Bedrijven in privébezit | 23 |
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ALZA Corp.
ALZA Corp. Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology ALZA Corp. provides drug delivery solutions and develops pharmaceutical products. The company applies its delivery technologies to develop pharmaceutical products with enhanced therapeutic value for its own portfolio and for many of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies. The company was founded by Martin Gerstel and Alejandro Zaffaroni in 1968 and is headquartered in Vacaville, CA. | Health Technology |
Genentech, Inc.
Genentech, Inc. BiotechnologyHealth Technology Genentech, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets pharmaceutical products for life-threatening medical conditions. It studies various areas including oncology, immunology, neuroscience, ophthalmic diseases, microbial pathogenesis, metabolic diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and opportunistic areas. The company was founded by Herb W. Boyer and Robert A. Swanson in 1976 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA. | Health Technology |
Schering-Plough Corp.
Schering-Plough Corp. Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Schering Plough Corp. manufactures and sells pharmaceuticals, consumer and animal health care products. The firm discovers, develops, manufactures and markets advanced drug therapies. The company is headquartered in Kenilworth, NJ. | Health Technology |
Sirna Therapeutics, Inc.
Sirna Therapeutics, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Sirna Therapeutics, Inc. creates potent and stable siRNA compounds that are delivered into human cells resulting in the silencing of genes and viruses responsible for human diseases. The firm creates RNAi- based therapies to treat patients. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. | Commercial Services |
Coulter Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Coulter Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Founded in 1995, Coulter Pharmaceutical is engaged in the development of novel drugs and therapies for the treatment of people with cancer and autoimmune diseases. Currently under development is a family of therapeutics based upon two drug discovery platforms: therapeutic antibodies and targeted oncologics. | Health Technology |
Assertio Therapeutics, Inc.
Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. engages in the manufacture and distribution of pharmaceutical products to treat pain and other central nervous system conditions. Its brands include Gralise, Zipsor, Lazanda, Cambia, NUCYNTA ER and NUCYNTA. The firm focuses on neurology, orphan and specialty medicines. The company was founded by John W. Shell on August 7, 1995 and is headquartered in Lake Forest, IL. | Health Technology |
Corixa Corp.
Corixa Corp. BiotechnologyHealth Technology Corixa Corp. operates as a biopharmaceutical company. It develops and manufactures oncology and immunology products. The firm offers vaccines, immunotherapeutic, monoclonal antibody-based therapeutics, adjuvant and antigen delivery systems, toxin-conjugated, and antigen-specific diagnostic products. The company was founded by Steven H. Gillis and Mark McDade in 1994 and is headquartered in Hamilton, MT. | Health Technology |
ProQuest Management LLC
ProQuest Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance ProQuest Management LLC (ProQuest Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 1998 by Jay Moorin. The firm headquartered in Naples, Florida. | Finance |
Threshold Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Threshold Pharmaceuticals, Inc. BiotechnologyHealth Technology Threshold Pharmaceuticals, Inc. engages in the development of therapeutics for treating tumors. It offers the Evofosfamide which designed as a prodrug that is activated under the extreme hypoxic conditions commonly found in tumors, but not typically in healthy tissues, and TH-3424 which is a small-molecule drug candidate for the treatment of liver, castrate resistant prostate cancer, T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemias, and other cancers. The company was founded by Jeffrey W. Bird on October 17, 2001 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA | Health Technology |
Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops and markets pharmaceutical products. Its medical products include xyrem, erwinaze, vyxeos, and kidrolas. The company was founded by Bruce C. Cozadd in 2003 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. | Health Technology |
Emergent Product Development Seattle
Emergent Product Development Seattle Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Emergent Product Development Seattle discovers and develops biopharmaceutical products. It focuses on the discovery and development of novel medicines to treat inflammatory diseases and cancer. The company was founded by Peter A. Thompson, Jeffrey A. Ledbetter and Kendall M. Mohler in March 1999 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA. | Health Technology |
Cougar Biotechnology, Inc. /Old/
Cougar Biotechnology, Inc. /Old/ Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Cougar Biotechnology, Inc. is a private biotechnology company. It is engaged in the field of oncology. Cougar Biotechnology has the financial backing of a well-established venture capital group that has a long-term, successful track record in oncology drug development and biotechnology research. The company is located in Los Angeles, CA. | Health Technology |
Bullet Biotechnology, Inc.
Bullet Biotechnology, Inc. BiotechnologyHealth Technology Bullet Biotechnology, Inc. develops active immunotherapies to stimulate a person’s own immune system to overcome diseases. Its technology educates the immune system to targeting specific cells that are causing disease. The firm's pipeline includes therapeutic vaccines for cancer, multi-specific antibody capsid products, therapeutic vaccines for autoimmune diseases, and other vaccines. The company was founded by Diego Fonstad, James R. Swartz, Willie Quinn and Thomas Theriault in September 2011 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA. | Health Technology |
Presidio Partners
Presidio Partners Investment ManagersFinance Presidio Partners is a venture capital firm founded in the year 1989 by Thomas R. Baruch. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | Finance |
Ilypsa, Inc.
Ilypsa, Inc. BiotechnologyHealth Technology Ilypsa, Inc. operates a biopharmaceutical firm. It develops renal care pharmaceutical products. The company was founded on March 6, 2003 and is headquartered in Thousand Oaks, CA. | Health Technology |
PDL BioPharma, Inc.
PDL BioPharma, Inc. BiotechnologyHealth Technology PDL BioPharma, Inc. engages in the business of developing innovative therapeutics and healthcare technologies. It operates under the Medical Devices and Income Generating Assets segments. The Medical Devices segment focuses on the sale and lease of the LENSAR laser system which includes equipment, patient interface devices, procedure licenses, training, installation, warranty, and maintenance agreements. The Income Generating Assets segment offers notes and other long-term receivables; royalty rights, hybrid notes, and royalty receivables; equity investments; and royalties from issued patents covering the humanization of antibodies. The company was founded by Cary L. Queen and Laurence Jay Korn in 1986 and is headquartered in Reno, NV. | Health Technology |
ALZA Pharmaceuticals | |
Auspex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Auspex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Auspex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company. The firm focuses on the development and commercialization of novel medicines for the treatment of orphan diseases. The company was founded by Sepehr Sarshar, Thomas G. Gant and Manouchehr M. Shahbaz on February 28, 2001 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA. | Health Technology |
Qwell Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Qwell Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Qwell Pharmaceuticals, Inc. developed small molecule drugs for oncology indications. It was a start-up biotechnology company devoted to small-molecule development derived from a plant source that have a potent ability to fight tumors and excess inflammation of skin cells. The company was founded in 2008 and was headquartered in Seattle, WA. | Health Technology |
Velocity Pharmaceutical Development LLC
Velocity Pharmaceutical Development LLC Drugstore ChainsRetail Trade Velocity Pharmaceutical Development LLC develops pharmaceutical drugs. It identifies drug candidates, target markets and designing and managing outsourced clinical trials. The firm seeks to acquire promising drug candidates, generally within a year of their entering human clinical trials or after initial human clinical data have been generated. The company was founded by David Collier, Ed Schnipper, Jim Larrick and Andy Perlman in 2011 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA. | Retail Trade |
NuMedii, Inc.
NuMedii, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services NuMedii, Inc. discovers and de-risks effective new drugs by translating Life Sciences Big Data into therapies. Its Big Data technology, originally developed at Stanford University, utilizes large amounts of scientific data together with proprietary biological network-based algorithms to discover drug-disease connections and biomarkers that are predictive of efficacy. The firm translates these predictions into novel de-risked drug candidates and partners with pharmaceutical companies for development and commercialization. The company was founded by Gini Deshpande, Joel Dudley and Atul J. Butte in 2008 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. | Commercial Services |
Hinge Bio, Inc.
Hinge Bio, Inc. BiotechnologyHealth Technology Hinge Bio, Inc. is a holding company, which engages in the development of specific and multi-specific antibodies. The company is headquartered in Burlingame, CA. | Health Technology |
Quanta Therapeutics, Inc.
Quanta Therapeutics, Inc. BiotechnologyHealth Technology Quanta Therapeutics, Inc. develops biotechnologies. The American company was founded in 2018 by Cameron Pitt, Frank McCormick. Perry D. Nisen has been the CEO of the company since 2021. | Health Technology |