Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> October 14, 2002
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
as an overview of what your company does?
Dr. Cooke: Mojave was founded in 1997. We were spun out of the
