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Before joining Cardium in June 2006, Dr. Rubanyi was Vice President of Gene Therapy at Berlex Biosciences (a subsidiary of Berlex Laboratories, the U.S. pharmaceutical affiliate of the Schering AG Group, Germany), in Richmond, California and Adjunct Professor at the University of California at Davis. He initiated and played a leading role in the Angiogenic Gene Therapy for Coronary Artery Disease project at Schering/Berlex. Formerly, he was Director of Vascular and Endothelial Research at Berlex, Director of the Institute of Pharmacology at Schering AG, Research Center, Berlin, Germany, Director of Pharmacology at Berlex Laboratories, Cedar Knolls, New Jersey, and Associate Professor at the Mayo Clinic Medical School, Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Rubanyi is the author or co-author of 22 books and over 325 research articles, serves as an editorial board member for several biomedical journals and is the founder of the biomedical journal Endothelium. He is also a member of numerous American and international scientific societies. His pioneering work on the nature and characterization of endothelium-derived relaxing factors (nitric oxide) and contracting factors (endothelin) contributed substantially to our present knowledge about endothelial control of vascular function in health and disease, including angiogenesis. | 