Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees support Wistar’s mission to save lives through science.
Officers
Richard M. Horowitz
Chair, Board of Trustees
President, RAF Industries, Inc.
President, RAF Industries, Inc.
Susan B. Dillon, Ph.D.
Vice Chair
Chairman of the Board of Directors and Co-founder, Aro Biotherapeutics
Chairman of the Board of Directors and Co-founder, Aro Biotherapeutics
Dario C. Altieri, M.D.
President & Chief Executive Officer,
The Wistar Institute
The Wistar Institute
Dean Stoios
Treasurer
Chief Financial Officer, The Wistar Institute
Chief Financial Officer, The Wistar Institute
Gelvina Rodriguez Stevenson, Esq.
Secretary
Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary & Government Relations, The Wistar Institute
Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary & Government Relations, The Wistar Institute
Members
Steven V. Abramson
President & CEO
Universal Display Corporation
Universal Display Corporation
Elizabeth McKee Anderson
Principal, Puresight Advisory LLC
Independent Board Director
Independent Board Director
Max Berger
President, MBA Equities, Ltd.
Douglas S. Briggs
Retired President & CEO, QVC, Inc.
Ira Brind
President, Brind Investments, Inc.
Charles B. Cairns, M.D.
Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Dean of the College of Medicine, Drexel University
Senior Vice President, Medical Affairs
Senior Vice President, Medical Affairs
Ronald L. Caplan
President, PMC Property Group, Inc.
Catherine Creese
Arthur Dantchik
President & Founder, Susquehanna International Group
Joshua Friedman, M.D., Ph.D.
Senior Vice President of Clinical Development, Spyre Therapeutics
Joseph A. Goldblum
President, G-II Equity Investors, Inc.
Perry A. Lerner
CEO & Chair, Crown Global Insurance Group, LLC
Carolyn Magill
Venture Partner, Define Ventures
Susan Schwartz McDonald, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer, NAXION
Abraham L. Morris
Operating Partner, Pegasus Capital Advisors
President, Rittenhouse Advisors, LLC
President, Rittenhouse Advisors, LLC
Elliot Norry, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer, Adaptimmune
Patrick Oates, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President of Business Development & Strategic Planning, EMSCO Scientific, Inc.
Arthur M. Pappas
Managing Partner, Pappas Capital
Helen P. Pudlin, Esq.
Honorary Chair Emeritus
Retired Executive Vice President and General Counsel, The PNC Financial Services Group
Retired Executive Vice President and General Counsel, The PNC Financial Services Group
Samuel V. Rhoads
Executive Vice President, Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation
Robert H. Rock
Chairman, MLR Holdings LLC
Gerald B. Rorer
Retired, Director Rorer Group, Inc.
Aleister Saunders, Ph.D.
Executive Vice Provost for Research & Innovation, Drexel University
Adele K. Schaeffer
Civic Leader
Milton S. (Tony) Schneider
Principal & Founder, The Glenville Group
Squire Servance
Founder & Managing Partner, Syridex Bio
William A. Slaughter, Esq.
Partner, Ballard Spahr LLP
Joy E. Taylor
CEO, EastEdge Consulting Services
Sozi Tulante, Esq.
Partner
Co-Managing Partner, Philadelphia Office
Dechert LLP
Co-Managing Partner, Philadelphia Office
Dechert LLP
Edward Ziff, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biochemistry, New York University
Board Members Emeriti
Peter C. Doherty, Ph.D.
Chairman, Department of Immunology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1996)
Member, National Academy of Sciences
Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1996)
Member, National Academy of Sciences
L. Patrick Gage, Ph.D.
Founder & President, enGage Biotech Consulting
The Honorable Harris N. Hollin
Herbert Kean, M.D.
Retired, Attending Physician and Clinical Professor
ENT-Otolaryngologist, Thomas Jefferson Medical College
ENT-Otolaryngologist, Thomas Jefferson Medical College
Faye Olivieri Kozich
Albert Ominsky, Esq.
Ominsky & Ominsky, P.C.
Paul J. Schmitt
Managing Director, Novitas Capital