Dr. Moreadith has been an Executive Vice President and the Chief Medical Officer of Cardium since January 2006. He has also served as Chief Medical Officer of InnerCool Therapies, Inc. since March 2006, and of Tissue Repair Company since August 2006, each a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cardium. Before joining Cardium, Dr. Moreadith served as Chief Medical Officer of Renovis, Inc., a publicly-traded pharmaceutical company, from August 2004 to December 2005. He was a co-founder of ThromboGenics Ltd., a company focused on biotherapeutics for the treatment of vascular diseases, including acute ischemic stroke, and served as the company's President and Chief Operating Officer (1998-2002) and Chief Medical Officer (1997-1998 and 2003). From April 1996 to February 1997, Dr. Moreadith served as Principal Medical Officer of Quintiles, Inc., and was also a co-founder of the Cardiovascular Therapeutics Group. He received a B.S. in Biology and Chemistry from North Carolina State University, an M.D. from Duke University and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Johns Hopkins University, and was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Postdoctoral Fellow in Genetics at Harvard Medical School. His faculty appointments include the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center where he was an Established Investigator of the American Heart Association.