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Dr. Blank has served as our Senior Vice President of Medicine, Regulatory Affairs, and Project Management since June of 2006. Prior to joining Altus, Dr. Blank served as the Senior Vice President for Medicine and Drug Regulatory Affairs at Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals USA, where he successfully managed the many components of an extensive clinical research program. Dr. Blank was responsible for a staff of 600 and an annual recruitment of 8,000-10,000 patients in the North and South America region. Prior to his position in the USA, he held a number of positions with increasing levels of responsibility at Boehringer�s headquarters in Ingelheim, Germany, the most recent as Head of Division International Project Management and Drug Regulatory Affairs (DRA). In this capacity, he founded the International Project Management Department, which had worldwide responsibility for the planning and monitoring of all Phase I-IV development projects and for all international regulatory submissions. Dr. Blank was also a member of Boehringer�s International Development Committee, which was responsible for steering their global drug development portfolio. He holds a medical degree in internal medicine from Universitaet Marburg, Germany. | 