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Detra Glinatsis Joins Alloy Therapeutics as Vice President, Business Development and Sales

Life Science Partner announces the recruitment of Detra Glinatsis to lead Alloy Therapeutics’ enterprise sales growth within the CDMO industry.

Alloy Therapeutics retained Life Science Partner to recruit their Vice President, Business Development and Sales to manage and accelerate their growth in biologics development services. Through a community of over 100 partners and developers, Alloy seeks to democratize access to pre- competitive tools, technologies, services, and company creation capabilities that are foundational for discovering and developing therapeutic biologics.

Detra Glinatsis

Life Science Partner is pleased to announce that Detra Glinatsis, former Senior Director, Business Development from AGC Biologics with experience building and leading a sales organization, will lead Alloy Therapeutics sales team.

“As a resourceful self-starter with a talent for streamlining sales processes, Glinatsis will be an instrumental addition for supporting Alloy Therapeutics’ rapid growth within the CDMO space.”

Tom Callaway, MD, Founder of Life Science Partner

In her new role at Alloy, Glinatsis will lead a team to build out the company’s customer base and sales infrastructure. She will identify and manage strategic partnerships, alliances, and joint ventures to contribute to Alloy’s expansion within the market. Additionally, Glinatsis will have the responsibility to facilitate Alloy’s participation in industry events, creation of collateral materials, and marketing of Alloy’s position within the CDMO space.

Prior to joining Alloy, Glinatsis served in various global business development roles for CDMOs and pharmaceutical companies including AGC Biologics, Sartorius, Rentschler Biopharma, Inventiv Health and Patheon Biologics. She holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology from the University of Akron.

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Life Science Partner is a specialized executive search firm that recruits transformational leaders for healthcare and life sciences companies. Our high-touch, partner-led process ensures an exceptional level of service, while our backgrounds as physicians and industry executives enable us to efficiently deliver the brightest candidates in the medical device, biopharmaceuticals, diagnostics, and healthcare technology fields.

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Jesse McCool, PhD, Joins Cytovance Biologics as Vice President, Microbial Services

Former Director, Process Development at Lonza Biologics

Life Science Partner recruited Jesse McCool, an innovative and energetic R&D leader, to become Vice President, Microbial Services for Cytovance Biologics.

Founded in 2003, Cytovance is one of the premier biological contract companies of therapeutic proteins and antibodies from mammalian cell culture to microbial fermentation.

“Jesse brings considerable new microbial cell development savvy and strong leadership skills to help build out this new product line for Cytovance,” said Tom Callaway, MD, President of Life Science Partner.  “His enthusiasm is infectious.”

In his new role at Cytovance, McCool will report to the Chief Scientific Officer and will direct microbial biologics process discovery and development activities.  He will manage partnerships with client organizations to assure strategic and tactical efforts are executed in accordance with global biologics regulatory submissions.

During his tenure at Lonza, McCool was successful in expanding offerings in Microbial Process R&D Services and improving Lonza’s market presence as Director, Microbial Process Development.

McCool earned his Bachelor of Science Degree and PhD in Microbiology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

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Neil Schauer, PhD joins Hospira as Senior Director, Biologics Process Development

Life Science Partner recruits former Director of DSP Research and Development at Millipore Corp

Life Science Partner announces the recruitment of Neil Schauer, PhD, a seasoned biopharmaceutical development leader and scientist, to become Senior Director, Biologics Development for Hospira’s biosimilars division.

Hospira is a global specialty pharmaceutical and medication delivery company that develops, manufactures and markets products that help improve the safety, effectiveness and costs of patient care.

In his most recent role at Millipore Corp, Schauer was responsible for scientific and managerial leadership of a large research and development organization with four functional areas focusing on DSP Research.  Prior to his tenure at Millipore Corp, Schauer served as the Director of Cambridge Manufacturing Sciences at Biogen Idec.  In his new role at Hospira, he will have overall responsibility for providing strategic and technical leadership to a large staff of pharmaceutical scientists responsible for the development of Drug Substance and Drug Product manufacturing for Hospira’s biosimilar products.

“Schauer is a versatile leader and scientist with a solid background in managing large teams in the identification and development of disruptive new technologies” noted Tom Callaway, MD, Founder and President of Life Science Partner.  “With his global knowledge and reach, he will serve Hospira well in its mission to become a global leader in providing biosimilar versions of the world’s most critical biological drugs.”

Schauer earned a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and Biology and his PhD in Anaerobic Microbiology from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg.

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