Robert E. Sobol

Corautus Genetics Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company, which manufactures gene therapy products for the treatment of cardiac and vascular disease & peripheral vascular disease. It is located in Atlanta, GA.

Introgen Therapeutics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focuses on the discovery, development and commercialization of targeted molecular therapies for the treatment of cancer and other diseases. The company develops molecular therapeutics, immunotherapies, vaccines and nano-particle tumor suppressor therapies to treat a wide range of cancers using tumor suppressors, cytokines and genes. The company maintains integrated research, development, manufacturing, clinical and regulatory departments and operates multiple manufacturing facilities including a commercial scale cGMP manufacturing facility. It was founded in June 1993 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

IDEC Pharmaceuticals Corp. used to develop and commercialize targeted immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. The company’s products used to act chiefly through immune system mechanisms, exerting their effect by binding to specific, readily targeted immune cells in the patient’s blood or lymphatic system. The company was headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Part of Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center provides medical research services. The company is based in San Diego, CA. Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center was acquired by Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute on June 23, 2009 for $25 million.

Magnum Therapeutics Corp. develops pharmaceutical products. The company is based in San Diego, CA. Magnum Therapeutics was acquired by Introgen Therapeutics, Inc. on January 01, 2004.

MultiVir, Inc. is a clinical-stage gene therapy company. It develops a pipeline of novel product candidates for the treatment of multiple oncological indications. The company's gene therapy and oncolytic viral technologies target some of cancer's most fundamental molecular defects. It operates through the following operating segment: business of developing novel cancer treatments. The company product candidates employ genetically engineered adenoviruses, herpes simplex viruses and vaccinia viruses to deliver therapeutic genes into tumors. It currently uses the following three different viral platforms in the development programs: adenovirus, or Ad, herpes simplex virus, or HSV, and vaccinia virus, or VV. MultiVir was founded on November 5, 2009 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.