James S. Burns is President & CEO of Entremed, Inc. Prior to joining EntreMed in June 2004, Mr. Burns was a co-founder and served as President and as Executive Vice President of MedPointe Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company. From 2000-2001, he served as a founder and Managing Director of MedPointe Capital Partners, a private equity firm that led the leveraged buyout to form MedPointe Pharmaceuticals. From 1993-1999, Mr. Burns served as a founder, Chairman, President and CEO of Osiris Therapeutics, Inc., a privately held biotechnology company. From 1986-1992, he was Vice Chairman of HealthCare Investment Corporation and a founding General Partner of Healthcare Ventures L.P., a venture capital partnership specializing in forming companies built around new pharmaceutical and biotechnology products. From 1981-1986, Mr. Burns served as Group President and as Vice President of the Laboratory Products Group at Becton Dickinson and Company. Previously, he was a Vice President and Partner at Booz Allen & Hamilton. Mr. Burns is Chairman of the Executive Committee of the International BioResources Group, the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), and a Trustee of the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute. He earned his BS and MS degrees in biological sciences from the University of Illinois and an MBA degree from DePaul University. |