Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> October 12, 2001

Gary Kledzik – Miravant Medical Technologies (mrvt)

GARY S. KLEDZIK, Chairman and CEO and a Founder of Miravant Medical Technologies and has served as Director since its inception in June 1989. He has been Chairman of the Board of Directors since July 1991 and Chief Executive Officer since September 1992. He served as President until May 1996. His previous experience includes serving as General and Research Manager for an Ortho Diagnostic Systems, Inc. division of Johnson & Johnson; Vice President of Immulok, Inc., a cancer and infectious disease biotechnology company which he co-founded and which was acquired by Johnson & Johnson in 1993. Dr. Kledzik holds a BS in Biology and a PhD in Physiology from Michigan State University. Profile
TWST: Could you begin by giving us a brief overview of Miravant Medical

Technologies?

Dr. Kledzik: Miravant specializes in the growing field of photodynamic

therapy (PDT), a highly targeted