James S. Burns has been President and Chief Executive Officer of EntreMed, Inc. since June 2004 and a director since September 2004. From 2001-2003, Mr. Burns was a co-founder and served as President and as Executive Vice President of MedPointe, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company that develops, markets and sells branded prescription pharmaceuticals. From 2000-2001, he served as a founder and Managing Director of MedPointe Capital Partners, a private equity firm that led a leveraged buyout to form MedPointe Pharmaceuticals. Previously, Mr. Burns was a founder, Chairman, President and CEO of Osiris Therapeutics, Inc., a biotech company developing therapeutic stem cell products for the regeneration of damaged or diseased tissue. He has also been Vice Chairman of HealthCare Investment Corporation and a founding General Partner of Healthcare Ventures L.P., a venture capital partnership specializing in forming companies built around new pharmaceutical and biotechnology products; Group President at Becton Dickinson and Company, a multidivisional biomedical products company; and was Vice President and Partner at Booz Allen & Hamilton, Inc., a multinational consulting firm. Mr. Burns is Chairman of the Executive Committee of the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), a Director of Symmetry Medical, Inc., and a Director of Ciphergen Biosystems, Inc. He earned his BS and MS degrees in biological sciences from the University of Illinois and an MBA degree from DePaul University.read more ...read less ...
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