Professional Biography

Harold is a preclinical scientist with in vivo pharmacological experience in both academia and the biopharmaceutical industry. In his prestigious career, he expertly wore several hats while organizing training workshops and introducing technological advances that saved thousands of research dollars for his companies. Harold is a reliable team player who is proud of accomplishing departmental and corporate goals. When called upon, he met the challenge to develop in vivo cardiovascular models, used his surgical expertise to train staff and provided his scientific writing skills to construct study protocols. Harold has built a reputation for leading preclinical studies from first-in-class to best-in-class medicines for unmet medical needs.

In 1999 Harold joined the pharmacology department at a young startup company, and designed the cardiovascular laboratory that was used to evaluate the preclinical safety of early lead drug development candidates. In addition to his energy and determination to succeed, he used his organizational skills and scientific knowledge to perform studies and ultimately provided data that resulted in creating a company pipeline of drug candidates and two business partnerships with major pharmaceutical companies. Additionally, he championed an exploratory project currently in preclinical development. During his career, Harold has trained many young scientists who eventually became pharmacology department chairmen, directors and a vice-president.

Harold graduated from the College of Charleston with a degree in biology. He has authored 23 published articles and discussed his work at major scientific meetings.

On a personal level, Harold enjoys spending time in the kitchen baking for his family and friends. He is an avid cyclist who rides to work each day for the health benefits and doing his part to spare the air of automobile pollution. When his mother was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma, he became a member of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society?s Team-In-Training and recently completed a century ride in the Eastern Sierras in California to raise money for leukemia research.