What Happened?
Ewing, NJ-based Celator-Pharmaceuticals Appointed Scott Jackson as Chief Executive Officer
About the Company
Celator Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that is transforming the science of combination therapy and developing products to improve outcomes for patients with cancer. The Company is working to establish a new treatment paradigm in which rationally-designed, fully-integrated combination products replace combination regimens of individual agents. Celator`s proprietary technology platform, CombiPlex®, identifies the most effective synergistic ratio of the component drugs, optimizes the pharmacology of the drug combination prior to human clinical trials, allows simultaneous administration of the components as a single product and maintains the synergistic ratio of the components after administration thereby exposing tumor cells to the right amounts of drug for the right length of time.
About the Person
Scott Jackson was appointed Chief Executive Officer in April 2008. He joined Celator in October 2007 as Head of Commercial Development. Mr. Jackson has more than 23 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry and has held positions of increasing responsibility in sales, marketing, and commercial development at Eli Lilly & Co., SmithKline Beecham, ImClone Systems Inc., Centocor (now Janssen Biotech, Inc.), Eximias Pharmaceuticals and YM BioSciences (acquired Eximias). Mr. Jackson holds a B.S. in Pharmacy from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science and an M.B.A. from the University of Notre Dame.
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