Forbes Magazine article on Dr. Salari
Hassan Salari is an entrepreneur and scientist. Dr. Salari has over 25 years? experience in the biotechnology field, specializing in highly sophisticated research and drug development programs and business development. Currently, Dr. Salari is the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Global Health Ventures Inc., now with a new name and stock symbol KDMP.OB, a company traded on the OTC Bulletin Board. Further, Dr. Salari is a director of Neurokine Pharmaceutical Inc , a company with an emphasis in neurological diseases. Prior to that, Dr. Salari was a director of Pacgen Biopharmaceuticals Inc., a public company with its shares listed on the TSX Venture Exchange. From 1998 to 2007, Dr. Salari was the chief executive officer and president of Chemokine Therapeutics Corp., a company established as a focused biotechnology company to develop chemokine-based therapeutic products for human diseases. Chemokine was a public company listed on OTC Bulletin Board and the TSX. From 1992 to 1998, Dr. Salari was the chief executive officer and president of Inflazyme Pharmaceuticals Ltd., a company founded by Dr. Salari. From 1991 to 1998, Dr. Salari was a Professor, Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. From 1987 to 1990, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia. From 1986 to 1987, he was a research associate in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. He was the lead project investigator in cytokine research and drug development. From 1984 to 1986, he worked as a research associate at the Department of Physiology, Laval University. Dr. Salari carried out research work on the biology of human blood cells and their control by cytokines. From 1981 to 1982, Dr. Salari worked at the Department of Immunology at McGill University in Montreal as a research associate. He is the author of over 200 scientific articles, abstracts and books in various subjects of medicine.
