Mike Ross
Managing Partner
Immunology
Optimize Courier
Austria
Biography
Mike was the tenth employee at Genentech, where he worked for 13 years. He served as Genentech team leader for Humulin® (human insulin-Lilly), Roferon® (Interferon alpha -Roche), Protropin® (hGH), Vice President of Development during the development of Activase®, Nutropin® and Pulmozyme®. He then started Genentech’s protein engineering and small molecule discovery effort as Vice President of Medicinal and Biomolecular Chemistry. Mike was the Founding CEO of Arris Pharmaceutical, MetaXen, ExSAR and CyThera (now Viacyte). He was also Managing Partner in Didyma, LLC, a biotechnology management consulting firm. Mike served on the boards of Carta Proteomics, Epimmune, Genencor, MetaXen, and Xenova.
Research Interest
Immunology
