Jerome H. Fleisch, Ph.D.

Over 35 years of experience as a research pharmacologist in academia, the National Institutes of Health, and Eli Lilly & Company. Retired as a Distinguished Research Fellow in 2002 after 28 years at Lilly. Internationally recognized as an expert in drug development, having led several multidisciplinary research teams in the discovery of and the quest to advance approximately 12 new chemical entities into clinical trials. Well published in peer reviewed journals, Dr. Fleisch holds chemical and biological patents and has served on scientific journal editorial review boards. He is a member of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, the American Thoracic Society, the Inflammation Research Association and the Society of Critical Care Medicine. He is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine. He has a BS in Pharmacy from Columbia University, New York, a Ph.D. in Pharmacology from Georgetown University, Washington, DC, and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard Medical School.