Gary Allen Rogers

Gary A. Rogers, Ph.D.
was appointed Senior Vice President, Pharmaceutical Research in July 2000 and has served as Vice President, Pharmaceutical Discovery since June 1995.
In February 1994, he founded Ligand Design, a private contract design and synthesis firm located in Santa Barbara, California.
From 1987 to 1994, Dr. Rogers served as an Associate Research Biochemist at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Prior to that, he held a succession of research and faculty positions at universities in the United States and abroad, including three years as an Adjunct Professor of bio-organic chemistry under Dr. Paul Boyer at the University of California, Los Angeles and four years as an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas.
Dr. Rogers is a co-inventor of the AMPAKINE(R) family of AMPA receptor modulating compounds.
He holds a B.S.
degree in organic chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Ph.D.
in Bio-organic Chemistry from the University of California, Santa Barbara.