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Gaetano T. Montelione, Ph.D. – Chief Executive Officer / President
Professor Montelione is a Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey and, an Adjunct Professor of Biochemistry at UMDNJ- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He received a B.S. and Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Cornell University. Dr. Montelione is also the recipient of numerous awards recognizing his scientific achievements including the Searle Scholar Award, the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, and the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. He is an executive member of the International Structural Genomics Organization and has been a consultant on NMR technology and structural biology at a number of pharmaceutical companies including Chiron, Eli Lilly, Novartis and Wyeth-Ayerst. He is the author of more than 190 publications covering research on triple resonance NMR, protein structure analysis, computational methods for automated analysis of NMR data, NMR methods for determining vicinal coupling constants in proteins, and the use of NMR and structural bioinformatics and functional genomics.

Gregory Kornhaber, Ph.D. – Chief Scientific Officer
Dr. Kornhaber is an expert in the biophysical characterization of proteins by NMR and Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry. He is a Research Assistant Professor at Rutgers in the Center for Advanced Technology and Medicine and is also serving as the Director of Community Outreach at the Northeast Structural Genomics Consortium, a large-scale Protein Structure Initiative of the National Institutes of Health. From 2005-2007, as a New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dr. Kornhaber led biophysical investigations into pharmacological chaperones for the treatment of lysosomal storage disorders. One of these compounds, EXR-202, is currently being developed by ExSAR for the treatment of Gaucher disease. At the completion of his postdoctoral fellowship, ExSAR retained Dr. Kornhaber and within one-year, promoted him from Senior Scientist to Associate Director of Business Development. Dr. Kornhaber received his doctorate in 2005 from the Joint Graduate Biological Sciences Program of Rutgers-UMDNJ.