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TKMR> corrected link to PR...

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/tekmira-pharmaceuticals-oncore-biopharma-announce-022237110.html;_ylt=AwrBJR7xTrNUsCcAHHmTmYlQ

the new management team includes Michael Sofia (inventor of Sovaldi) who will become CSO...

The combined company plans to retain top executives and board members from Tekmira and OnCore. The new company's management team will include Mark J. Murray, PhD, Chief Executive Officer; Patrick T. Higgins, President and Chief Operating Officer; Bruce Cousins, Chief Financial Officer; Michael J. Sofia, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer; Mark Kowalski, MD, PhD, Chief Medical Officer; Bryce Roberts, Chief Legal Officer; Michael J. McElhaugh, Chief Business Officer; and Michael J. Abrams, PhD, Chief Discovery Officer. William T. Symonds, PharmD, who led the clinical development of sofosbuvir for the treatment of HCV infection at Pharmasset and later Gilead Sciences, Inc., will be Chief Development Officer and lead the clinical development of the portfolio.

Vivek Ramaswamy will serve as Chairman of the combined company; Dr. Daniel Kisner MD will serve as its Vice-Chairman. The combined company will be headquartered in Vancouver, BC.

MICHAEL J. SOFIA, PH.D.
Chief Scientific Officer, Head of R&D and Co-Founder

http://www.oncorebiopharma.com/leadershipteam/

Prior to co-founding OnCore BioPharma, Inc., Mike most recently was Senior Vice President of Chemistry, Princeton Site Head and Senior Advisor at Gilead Sciences. Previously he was Sr. Vice President of Chemistry at Pharmasset, Inc. He joined Pharmasset in 2005 and had responsibility for research strategy, medicinal chemistry, process research, computational chemistry and analytical chemistry functions and was a clinical development project leader. He is an inventor of Sovaldi (sofosbuvir), a treatment of hepatitis C infection currently approved and marketed by Gilead Sciences, Inc. Prior to Pharmasset, he held positions of Group Director, New Leads Chemistry at Bristol-Myers Squibb, Vice President of Research at Intercardia Research Labs (formerly Transcell Technologies) and was Research Investigator and Project Leader at Lilly Research Labs, Eli Lilly & Co. He did his postdoctoral training in synthetic organic chemistry, as an NIH fellow, at Columbia University and earned his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He received his B.A. degree in chemistry from Cornell University. He has authored 100 publications, 9 book chapters and numerous abstracts and is an inventor on over 30 patents. He also holds a professorship position at the Baruch S. Blumberg Institute and is on the editorial board of several scientific journals. Mike is the recipient of the PA BIO 2014 Scientific Achievement Award for the discovery of Sofosbuvir.