Jerome B. Zeldis

Biography

  Jerome B. Zeldis, M.D., Ph.D., is chief medical officer and president of clinical development at Sorrento Therapeutics. Prior to this role, Dr. Zeldis was chief executive officer of Celgene Global Health. Previously, he was chief medical officer and senior vice president of clinical research and medical affairs at Celgene Corporation and had 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, Trek Therapeutics and BionorPharma. He has published 122 peer reviewed articles and 24 reviews, book chapters and editorials.

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