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Interview

Interview With John Patton

Pages 375-381 | Published online: 15 Sep 2010
 

Abstract

John is a biotechnologist and entrepreneur in the field of drug delivery, particularly inhalation and peptide, and protein delivery. Prior to founding Dance last year, he was co-founder of Inhale Therapeutics (now Nektar), where he served as Director, Head of Research and Chief Scientific Officer from 1990–2008. Before that he led the drug delivery group at Genentech (l985–1990), where he demonstrated the feasibility of systemic delivery of large molecules through the lungs. Prior to joining Genentech, Dr Patton was a tenured professor at the University of Georgia. Dr Patton received his PhD in marine biology from the University of California, San Diego, USA, and held post-doctoral positions in biomedicine at Harvard Medical School, USA, and the University of Lund, Sweden. He serves on scientific advisory boards for Penn State University, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Next Safety and Aridis Pharmaceuticals as well as the executive boards of Halozyme, Dance, Activaero and Pleiades Cardiotherapeutics. He is author or coauthor of over 100 publications and inventor or coinventor of over 38 patents.

Financial & competing interests disclosure

John Patton holds stocks or options in Dance Pharma, Pleiades, Pikamab, Activaero, Next Safety, Aridis, Nektar and Halozyme. The author has no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed. No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.

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