Team
Alicia Löffler, PhD
Executive Director, INVO
Associate Provost, Innovation and New Ventures
Associate Vice President, Research
a-loffler@northwestern.edu
Phone: (847) 491-4647
Karl Scheidt, PhD
Executive Director, NewCures
Professor, Departments of Chemistry & Pharmacology
Director, Center for Molecular Innovation and Drug Discovery
Associate Director, NU-GoKidney
scheidt@northwestern.edu
Phone: (847) 491-6659
Caroline Ko, PhD
Project Leader, NewCures
c-ko@northwestern.edu
Phone: (847) 491-2163
Board Members
External Board
Internal Board
James Audia, PhD
Entrepreneur in Residence, Third Rock Ventures
Jason Burch, PhD
Executive Director, Ventus Therapeutics
Mira Chaurushiya, PhD
Partner, 5AM Venture Management LLC
Jim Demarest, PhD
Group Scientific Director, Immunology, AbbVie Inc.
Susan Gregory, PhD
Principal Consultant, SA Gregory Associates, LLC
Margalit Haber, PhD
Associate, Life Science, Osage University Partners
Timothy Heffron, PhD
Associate Director and Principal Scientist, Discovery Chemistry, Genentech, Inc.
Andrew Mazar, PhD
Executive Vice President, Research and Development
Chief Scientific Officer, Monopar Therapeutics Inc.
Shobha Parthasarathi, PhD
Vice President, External Innovation and New Ventures, Xontogeny
John Puisis, MBA
Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer, Cour
Pharmaceutical Development Company, Inc.
Norbert Reidel, PhD
President and Chief Executive Officer, Aptinyx Inc.
Eric Schwartz, PhD
Vice President, Drug Discovery, Cedilla Therapeutics
Jeffrey Sherman, MD, FACP
Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President, Research and Development, Horizon Pharma, Inc.
James Sullivan, PhD
Venture Partner, OrbiMed Advisors LLC
Chief Executive Officer, Vanqua Bio
James Summers, PhD
Managing Director, St. Andrews Advisors, LLC
Geeta Vemuri, PhD, MBA
Founder and Managing Partner, Agent Capital, LLC
Leigh Zawel, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer, Small Molecules, Cullinan Oncology, LLC
Alfred George, Jr., MD
Chair, Department of Pharmacology
Director, Center for Pharmacogenomics
Professor of Pharmacology
Dimitri Krainc, MD
Chair, Department of Neurology
Director, Center for Neurogenetics
Professor of Neurology, Neurological Surgery and Physiology
Jeffrey Masters, PhD
Senior Director, Corporate Partnerships and Business Development
Elizabeth McNally, MD, PhD
Director, Center for Genetic Medicine
Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Chad Mirkin, PhD
Director, International Institute for Nanotechnology
Professor of Chemistry, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Medicine
Joseph Moskal, PhD
Director, The Falk Center for Molecular Therapeutics
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Neurological Surgery
Milan Mrksich, PhD
Vice President of Research, Office for Research
Director, Center for Synthetic Biology
Professor of Chemistry and Cell and Molecular Biology
Thomas O’Halloran, PhD
Director, Chemistry of Life Processes Institute
Professor of Chemistry, Molecular Biosciences, and Medicine
Amy Paller, MD
Chair, Department of Dermatology
Director, Northwestern University Skin Disease Research Center
Professor of Dermatology and Pediatrics
Leonidas Platanias, MD, PhD
Director, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center
Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Thomas Shanley, MD
Chair, Department of Pediatrics
Professor of Pediatrics
D James Surmeier, PhD
Chair, Department of Physiology
Professor of Physiology