Dr. Man has 10+ years experience in entrepreneurial stage biotech. He has successfully driven several products from concept to commercialization, helped obtain ~$9M in small business grant funding, and has experience running mutlicenter patient studies and FDA regulatory planning. He has a PhD in molecular pathology from UC San Diego, a degree in economics from UC Berkeley, and did his research at the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute.

Dr. Kenny is a tenured associate professor at The Scripps Research Institute, Florida. He was the recipient of the prestigious 2010 Jacob P. Waletzky Memorial Award for Innovative Research in Drug Addiction and Alcoholism. Over the last decade, he has made outstanding contributions to the neuropharmacology and molecular study of drug addiction and is considered a thought leader in the field. Dr. Kenny earned his PhD from King’s College London.

Dr. Kamenecka is an assistant professor at The Scripps Research Institute, Florida. He has extensive industry experience in drug development, and was a medicinal chemist at Merck for 6 years before joining Scripps. He has expertise in medicinal chemistry, design, synthesis, optimization, and evaluation of novel compounds of biological and therapeutic interest. He has a Ph.D. from UC Irvine and post-doc at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.