Business Development / Commercialization Committee

Dr. Adam Elhofy has over 16 years of scientific research experience in the areas of immunology, neuroscience, and oncology, with multiple publications and grants. He was funded by both the National Institutes of Health and the Multiple Sclerosis society as an investigator at Northwestern University Medical School. He has served in various roles from Principal Investigator of a Nanotech start-up to Chief Science officer. He developed the core technology for the Cell-Ess® line of products and aided in creating patents around novel uses of materials.

His doctoral research won him the award of the Top 5 trainee scientists by the American Association of Immunologists. Dr. Elhofy has 15 scientific publications in peer reviewed journals. He has played a variety of roles with start-up biotech companies ranging from Principal Investigator to Director of Corporate Development.

Ed is an intellectual property expert and the founding president of EKMS, Inc., a company known for pioneering novel IP management techniques for two decades.

Ed sold EKMS to a publicly traded company in 2004, but came out of retirement to apply his licensing skills and tech transfer experience at CWR, where he will help patients access effective “new” treatments more quickly and affordably through Rediscovery Research™.

The repurposed drugs and other Rediscovery Research approaches established by Cures’s research partners are often safer, more effective and cheaper than the current Standard of Care, but there is often a gap between publication of research results and adoption of the “rediscovered” treatment in the clinic by physicians and patients. Ed works with public and private sector life sciences organizations to devise creative new business methods aimed at ensuring that life-saving therapies reach patients as soon as feasible.

Ed has presented and written extensively on licensing and IP strategy for John Wiley, Euromoney Publishing, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, Mass High Tech, the Licensing Executives Society (LES) and the Boston Patent Lawyers’ Association. His recent book, “Innovate or Perish: Managing the Enduring Technology Company in the Global Market”, focuses on the challenge of IP management in today’s evolving innovation environment.

Adriann is CEO of Vetigenics.  Previously, Adriann was CEO at Orsenix, an Entrepreneur in Residence at Fortress Biotech, a public biotech company which finds and forms subsidiary companies around promising drugs and technologies. For more than 25 years, Adriann has been a global biotech and pharmaceutical industry leader managing all stages of drug development, commercialization, strategic deal-making and partnerships. Prior to Fortress Biotech, Adriann was Executive Vice President, Chief Commercial Officer of Kadmon Corporation leading Kadmon’ s commercial organization, Kadmon Pharmaceuticals, from its inception in September 2010.

Before Kadmon, Adriann was Executive Vice President, Business Development and Strategic Planning at King Pharmaceuticals where she led many profitable transactions in addition to creating and implementing King’s Corporate Strategy for Growth in 2005, contributing to the company’s overall success and ultimate sale to Pfizer in 2011.

After starting her career as a sales representative at Sterling Drug, Adriann progressed through a series of management and executive roles with established biopharmaceutical companies including Symphogen, Merck, BMS and Roche in commercial operations, strategy and corporate development. Although she’s made many important contributions in the areas of oncology, transplantation and hepatology, her leadership of many successful new product launches including leading the team responsible for the refiling and ultimate launch of ERBITUX® (cetuximab), for the treatment of cancer are testimony to her unique abilities, commitment and tenacity to “make a difference”.

Throughout her professional career, Adriann has maintained an active role with the many industry associations. In 2008, she was voted as one of the top 100 Most Inspiring People in Healthcare by PharmaVoice Magazine, in 2016 to the Business Advisory Board of Cures Within Reach and in 2014 as a member of the Springboard Life Sciences Council Executive Board. She is also a board member, strategic advisor and mentor to many start-up biotech companies. Adriann holds an MBA in Marketing and Finance from the Keller Graduate School of Management and a BS in Pre-Veterinary Medicine from the University of Delaware.