Scientific Advisory Board

Zhengrong (Rong) Cui

Zhengrong (Rong) Cui is a Professor and Alfred and Dorothy Mannino Fellow in Pharmacy at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), College of Pharmacy, Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery. He is also a member of the LIVESTRONG Cancer Institutes at UT Austin Dell Medical School. His research interests lie in drug and vaccine delivery and experimental tumor therapy.

He has nearly twenty years of experience in using pharmaceutical chemistry and nanotechnology to overcome tumor resistance to (chemo)therapy, to target anti-inflammatory agents to chronic inflammation sites, and to improve the immunogenicity of vaccine antigens. He published extensively in the fields of pharmaceutics and vaccinology, including numerous peer-reviewed research papers, review papers, and book chapters. He is an inventor on several patents and patent applications that cover antitumor compounds, nucleic acid delivery systems, vaccine adjuvants, and dry powder vaccines. He teaches Biopharmaceutics to professional Doctor of Pharmacy students and Advanced Biopharmaceutics to graduate students. Dr. Cui serves as an editor of the research journal International Journal of Pharmaceutics. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Kentucky and completed his postdoctoral training at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Scott Tagawa

Scott T. Tagawa, MD, MS, FACP is a Professor of Medicine & Urology at Weill Cornell Medicine, and an Attending Physician at NewYork-Presbyterian – Weill Cornell Medical Center. After earning his BS from Georgetown University, Dr. Tagawa received his MD at the University of Southern California School of Medicine.

After completing his Internship and Residency training there, he became Chief Resident and subsequently underwent fellowship training in Hematology and Medical Oncology, being appointed Chief Fellow for his final two years. He had the opportunity to train with international leaders in Genitourinary (GU) Oncology. In August 2005, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, serving as Associate Program Director for the Fellowship Training Program. As Director of Genitourinary Oncology for the Division of Hematology and Oncology and Director of Medical Oncology for the Deane Prostate Health and Research Center, Dr. Tagawa took the lead in developing genitourinary clinical trials. He was recruited to Weill Cornell Medical College in 2007. His research covers clinical and translational investigations in genitourinary tumors and thrombosis in malignancy. As the Medical Director of the Genitourinary Oncology Research Program, Dr. Tagawa leads clinical trials in the areas of prostate, kidney, and bladder cancer as well as the prevention and treatment of thrombosis with cancer. He specializes in drug development and theranostics in prostate cancer. Dr. Tagawa also serves as Associate Director of Clinical Research for the Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology and leader of the Genitourinary Disease Management Team of the Meyer Cancer Center. Dr. Tagawa is the WCMC principal investigator for the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology (formerly CALGB), serving on the Board of Directors and as a funded member of the Genitourinary Committee. He is a member of the Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). Additionally, he serves on the editorial boards of many journals, is a member of numerous national and international medical and scientific societies, and has been named on multiple “top doctor” award lists.

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Dr. Neal Shore

Dr. Neal Shore graduated both Duke University and Duke University Medical School. He completed his general surgery/urology residence at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center/Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Cente. He is the Medical Director, for the Carolina Urologic Research Center. He practices with Atlantic Urology Clinics in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Dr Shore has conducted more than 400 clinical trials, focusing mainly for GU Oncology indications. He is the Chief Medical Officer, Surgery/Urology, for GenesisCare,US. He has more than 250 peer reviewed publications and numerous book chapters. He serves on the SITC Guidelines Committee for Bladder Cancer as well as the boards of the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network and the Duke Global Health Institute. He is the Chair of the LUGPA Education Committee. He is on the editorial boards of Reviews in Urology, Urology Times, Chemotherapy Advisor, OncLive, PLOS ONE, Urology Practice, World Journal of Urology, and also serves as Editor, Everyday Urology-Oncology. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

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Andreas Typaldos

Mr. Typaldos, a veteran IT entrepreneur, is CEO of Petra Acquisition, a life sciences company (with a recent $73M Nasdaq IPO); Executive Chairman of Melontus, a holding company in Digital Health, CLOUD, Enterprise Software, Communications, and AI; BoardMember of QCD-x, an early cancer detection company; as well as AI Advisory Board Member at AIkido Pharma.

In the past, he was founder, executive, or major shareholder of Xandros, a Linux operating system company that received strategic alliance and funding from Microsoft; IOTA Communications (formerly Arkados), an IoT company; Scalix, a Linux email company built by HP (HP OpenMail), purchased with Microsoft funding; and Computron, an enterprise financial software company (with a half-billion dollar Nasdaq IPO in the early days of enterprise software). Born in Greece, he received a BS in Mathematical Methods for Engineering and Operations Research on scholarship from Columbia University, and a Masters in Computer Science from Pratt Institute.

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