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Karel Petrak
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Heart Failure Clinical Trials | SCIRENT Cardiovascular Expertise Europe
Biotech in the Digital Age: 7 Strategies for Accelerating Business Growth
Enabling breakthroughs: How AI is transforming oncology
One of Epic's emeritus CIO advisors on helping others optimize their EHRs | Healthcare IT News
21st Annual Temperature Controlled Logistics in Biopharmaceuticals Europe 2025 - Arena International
Development of NK cell-based cancer immunotherapies through receptor engineering | Cellular & Molecular Immunology
Future-proofing drug R&D to ensure a successful commercial launch - Clarivate
Evaluating the effect of artificial intelligence on pharmaceutical product and drug discovery in China | Future Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences | Full Text
Accomplishments: - generated safety, toxicity and efficacy preclinical data, and designed several clinical studies (mucositis, necrotizing enterocolitis, head and neck cancer, severe sepsis) which showed talactoferrin to be effective in Phase 2 clinical studies. - raised $10+ MM federal funds to support the above clinical studies.
- led development of gene-based products for asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, and transplant rejection project funded by Syntex (later Roche) with a total budget of $17 million. I filed patents for the electroporation and ultrasonic-nebulization technologies for gene delivery.
- managed a testing laboratory and a data management/statistics group (staff of 20, monitoring 5000+ studies) and streamlined stability testing to achieve 20% reduction of the overall work-volume and costs.
- developed self-assembling nanoparticles that avoided recognition by the reticulo-endothelial system of the body – a property essential for a systemic delivery of site-specific systems.
- developed and patented new photographic and electro resist materials, a surfactant-specific electrode, and a method for measuring diffusion of oxygen through coated polymer layers. I also developed polymer/polymer interactions and phase separation systems which found a major practical application in the company’s coating technology.
Published over 100 scientific publications and patents.
Specialties: Project leadership and management in all aspects of drug research and development.
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