JAMES KUO, MD, MBA

Dr. Kuo has experience in the life science industry as a chief executive officer, board director, business development executive, and venture capitalist. He is Chairman of the board of ImmunoPrecise Antibodies, a publicly-traded, multinational monoclonal antibody company. He is also a board director of Tryp Therapeutics, a publicly-traded psychedelic pharma company he co-founded and took public as Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Kuo is further a co-founder and Chairman of Monarch Labs, a privately-held, profitable medical device company focused on wound care. While serving as Chief Executive Officer of Synthetic Biologics, he completed two financings and a collaboration with a European pharmaceutical company. Dr. Kuo has also been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BioMicro Systems. The company completed multiple rounds of venture financing, reached profitable sales of a genetic research instrument, and was eventually sold to a major European pharmaceutical company. He has further served as Chief Executive Officer of Discovery Laboratories, a publicly-traded company he co-founded developing respiratory therapeutics. Dr. Kuo has been head of cardiovascular licensing and development at Pfizer and Vice President of Business Development at Myriad Genetics. He has also been Managing Director of HealthCare Ventures, a $378 million venture capital fund. He received his MD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and his MBA from the Wharton School of Business. He received his BA in molecular biology from Haverford College.