What Happened?
Dallas, TX-based Gradalis has Promoted Philip B. Maples as Chief Technical Officer
About the Company
Gradalis, Inc. is a fully integrated biotechnology company based in Dallas, Texas that focuses on the development, manufacturing, and commercialization of drugs, vaccines, tools, and diagnostics primarily in the area of cancer. Gradalis has its own GMP manufacturing facility along with highly skilled technical leadership and staff and a strategic partnership with Mary Crowley Cancer Research Centers for clinical development of Gradalis products. The Company has two primary platforms, one centered on personalized autologous vaccines and a second focused on bifunctional short hairpin RNA (shRNA) to enable specific protein knockdown. In addition. Gradalis has numerous partnerships and joint ventures that provide it with access to other cutting edge clinical and pre-clinical stage programs.
About the Person
Philip B. Maples joined Gradalis in 2005 as its first employee and has more than 28 years of international healthcare and biotechnology experience. Maples will continue to oversee product development, manufacturing and quality assurance for the Texas-based company as it seeks to commercialize and expand the development of safe, personalized, effective cancer therapeutics and other technologies. Prior to this role, Maples served as vice president of technical operations at Gradalis, and has held previous executive positions at Baxter Healthcare, US Oncology, CellExSys, and Chromos Molecular Systems. Maples obtained his B.S. in microbiology from the University of Tulsa, his M.S. and Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, and performed his post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago.
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