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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.

Susan B. Dillon, Ph.D.
Vice Chair
President & CEO, Aro Biotherapeutics

Dario C. Altieri, M.D.
President & Chief Executive Officer

Dean Stoios
Chief Financial Officer
Treasurer

Gelvina Rodriguez Stevenson, Esq.
Secretary
Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary & Government Relations, The Wistar Institute

Members

Steven V. Abramson
President & CEO 
Universal Display Corporation

Elizabeth McKee Anderson
Principal, Puresight Advisory LLC
Independent Board Director

Douglas S. Briggs
Retired President & CEO, QVC, Inc.

Ira Brind
President, Brind Investments, Inc.

Ronald L. Caplan
President, PMC Property Group, Inc.

Arthur Dantchik
President & Founder, Susquehanna International Group

Daniel K. Fitzpatrick, C.F.A.
President & CEO, Citizens Bank of PA/NJ/DE/NY

John A. Fry
President, Drexel University

Joseph A. Goldblum
President, G-II Equity Investors, Inc.

Perry A. Lerner
CEO & Chair, Crown Global Insurance Group, LLC

Susan Schwartz McDonald, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer, NAXION

Abraham L. Morris
Operating Partner, Pegasus Capital Advisors
President, Rittenhouse Advisors, LLC

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

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
General Counsel
Form Energy

Edward Ziff, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biochemistry, New York University

Emeriti Board Members

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

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

Faye Olivieri Kozich

Albert Ominsky, Esq.
Ominsky & Ominsky, P.C.

Paul J. Schmitt
Managing Director, Novitas Capital

Doris Taxin

David V. Wachs