Leslie J. Browne
Chairman
Medicine
Phrixus Pharmaceuticals
United States of America
Biography
Leslie J. Browne has more than 30 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry at Novartis, Berlex, Pharmacopeia, and other biotechs in New Jersey and California. Most recently, he was president and CEO of Senesco, a cancer therapeutics company focused on multiple myeloma. Browne began his industrial career at Ciba-Geigy, now Novartis, where he invented fadrozole, for the treatment of breast cancer and was closely involved in the discoveries of Femara and Diovan, which became major products for Novartis. After Ciba-Geigy, he held several responsibilities at Berlex/Schering AG, including corporate vice president Berlex Laboratories, Inc. and president of Schering Berlin Venture Corporation
Research Interest
Biology & Medicine Preventive Medicine
