Primary Job Title CEO and Co-founder Primary Organization Lipella Pharmaceuticals
Location Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Regions Great Lakes, Northeastern US Gender Male
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Prior to co-founding Lipella, Dr.Kaufman was Vice President and Chief Science Officer of LaunchCyte LLC, a biotechnology corporate incubator. At LaunchCyte, Dr. Kaufman was co-founder of Proteopure Inc. and Knopp Neuroscience Inc.; served as the founding President of Crystalplex Corp.; served on the Boards of Reaction Biology Corp., Crystalplex
Corp., and Immunetrics Inc.; and served as Secretary of Reaction BiologyCorp. Prior to joining LaunchCyte, Dr. Kaufman served on the New Technology Committee in the Chemical Manufacturing Division of Merck & Co., and also served as a consultant to GlaxoSmithKline in the department of bioinformatics. Dr. Kaufman received his MBA in Finance from the Wharton School, and his PhD in Biophysics from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
