Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> January 21, 2005

MICHAEL CORRADO – ADVANCED BIOLOGICS

MICHAEL L. CORRADO, MD Chief Executive Officer of Advanced Biologics has established himself as an infectious disease expert in the pharmaceutical industry. After spending eight years with Merck and eight years with Johnson & Johnson, Dr. Corrado partnered with Howard Solomon to found Advanced Biologics in 1995. He has been intricately involved in the complete development of numerous infectious disease compounds, from pre-clinical work through to marketing application submission. Dr. Corrado has served as Primary Medical Author of six NDAs, five sNDAs, and several expert reports submitted to European regulatory bodies. Included in the impressive list of infectious disease compounds he has worked on are norfloxacin, ofloxacin, levofloxacin, chibroxin, Mefoxin test kit. Dr. Corrado has numerous publications and presentations to his credit and is a member of the IDSA - FDA Anti-infective Guidelines Committee. He is also a reviewer of anti-microbial agents and chemotherapy for the Archives of Internal Medicine. Profile
TWST: Would you begin with a little history and an overview of Advanced

Biologics?

Dr. Corrado: Advanced Biologics is a contract research organization. We

came into existence in February of