Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> July 8, 2002

Brian Gallagher – Collagenex Pharmaceuticals Inc (cgpi)

BRIAN M. GALLAGER, PhD, is the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of CollaGenex Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and has been with the company since 1994. Dr. Gallagher previously was employed by Bristol- Myers Squibb between 1988 and 1994 in a number of executive positions in strategic planning, business development, marketing and as President of Squibb Diagnostics, a $350 million division. Prior to Bristol-Myers, between 1978 and 1988, Dr. Gallagher held a number of research, development, marketing and business management positions with the pharmaceuticals division of E.I. du Pont de Nemours. He began his career in 1974 in the Chemistry Department of the Brookhaven National Laboratory as a research scientist. He currently also serves on the Board of Directors for Adams Laboratories, a privately held, specialty pharmaceutical company in the respiratory medicine field. Profile
TWST: Would you begin with a brief historical sketch of CollaGenex and

an overview of the things you're doing now?

Dr. Gallagher: CollaGenex was founded just over 10 years ago in 1992

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