Jerome B. Zeldis

Biography

Dr. Zeldis is noted for his exceptional and successful experience in drug development. Currently Dr. Zeldis serves as a Chief Medical Officer of Sorrento Therapeutics. Prior to that he was a CEO of Global Health and CMO of Celgene Corporation, Summit, NJ and Celgene’s Senior Vice President of Clinical Research and Medical Affairs and has been at Celgene since February, 1997. He attended Brown University for an A.B., M.S., followed by Yale University for an M.Phil., M.D., Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry (immunochemistry). Dr. Zeldis trained in Internal Medicine at the UCLA Center for the Health Sciences and Gastroenterology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He was Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School, Associate Professor of Medicine at University of California, Davis, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Cornell Medical School and Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Prior to working at Celgene, Dr. Zeldis worked at Sandoz Research Institute and Janssen Research Institute in both clinical research and medical development. He has been a board member of a few start-up biotechnology companies and is currently on the board of the Semorex Corporation, PTC Corporation, Soligenix, and BionorPharma, NJ chapter of the Arthritis Foundation and the Castleman’s Disease Organization.

Research Interest

Lipidology, Vascular biology, Immunology