Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> October 14, 2002

Timothy Cooke – Mojave Therapeutics Inc

TIMOTHY COOKE has served as Chief Executive Officer of Mojave Therapeutics, Inc., since August 2000. Previous to joining Mojave, he spent nine years at Merck & Co., Inc., where he held various domestic and international sales and marketing positions in the company's newly- formed Vaccine Division. Dr. Cooke was a founding member of Aventis Pasteur MSD, a joint venture between Merck and Aventis Pasteur formed in 1994 to market vaccines in Western Europe. Prior to joining Merck, Dr. Cooke held marketing and sales positions at Membrex, a development-stage company focused on biopharmaceutical purification. Dr. Cooke has a PhD in Bio-Organic Chemistry and an MBA from Columbia University. Profile
TWST: Would you give us a brief history of Mojave Therapeutics as well

as an overview of what your company does?

Dr. Cooke: Mojave was founded in 1997. We were spun out of the