Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> December 30, 1999

Robert Butz – Polymerix Corporation

Robert Butz is President, COO & Director of Polymerix Corporation. After 11 years in basic and clinical R&D at Burroughs Wellcome Co., he served as Quintiles' first VP of Clinical Operations, then as VP of Strategic Business Research with Quintiles Transnational Corporation. His biotech experience includes positions as VP of Development with Amylin Pharmaceuticals, and President and COO of Copernicus Therapeutics. He is an elected member of the American Society of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics and the American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, and has served on the Drug Information Association's Steering Committees for the Americas and Biotechnology. Butz received an AB in Biology from Kenyon College and a PhD in Pharmacology from Duke University. Profile
TWST: Could you start us off with a brief summary of Polymerix as

a specialty pharmaceutical company today?

Dr. Butz: Polymerix Corporation is a pure play in

pharmacologically active polymers.