Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> October 12, 2001

Marvin Hausman – Axonyx (axyx)

MARVIN HAUSMAN, President and CEO, Prior to becoming President and CEO of Axonyx, Marvin S. Hausman, MD, was Director of Medco Research, a pharmaceutical research and development company focused primarily in the area of cardiovascular disease. Dr. Hausman has also been affiliated with Bristol-Meyers Squibb and Mead-Johnson. He serves on the board of directors of several companies and philanthropic organizations and is on the board of governors of the New York University School of Medicine. Dr. Hausman has also been a practicing surgeon and a clinical instructor in Pediatric Urology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in California. Dr. Hausman received his MD from NYU School of Medicine in New Profile
TWST: Would you give us a brief overview of the history and evolution of

Axonyx?

Mr. Hausman: Axonyx was a dream of mine several years ago. My mother had

come down with Alzheimer's disease and