Robert A. Curtis
Dr. Curtis currently serves as a consultant to emerging technology companies and serves on the board or as an advisor to a number of private entrepreneurial companies. He recently served as the Executive Chairman and Director of the Trudeau Institute in Saranac Lake, NY, as well as Chief Executive Officer of the Regional Technology Development Corporation of Cape Cod, MA, where he was responsible for identifying and commercializing technology from the Marine Biological Laboratory and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.
Dr. Curtis has been a Founder and CEO of several companies, including HistoRx, Inc., Cape Aquaculture Technologies, Inc., and Lion Pharmaceuticals/Phoenix Drug Discovery LLC. He assisted in the founding of Environmental Operating Solutions, Inc, which applied denitrification technology to wastewater with the company being sold in 2017. He was Co-founder of and CEO of CombiChem, Inc., which was purchased by Dupont Pharmaceuticals and served as founding President and CEO of MetaMorphix, Inc., a joint venture between Genetics Institute, Inc. and The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Prior to these entrepreneurial endeavors, Dr. Curtis held senior management positions at Pharmacopeia, Inc., Cambridge Neuroscience, Inc., and Pfizer, Inc. He also served as an Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice at the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago. Dr. Curtis holds a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, a Pharm.D. from University of Missouri, and a Master Business Administration from Columbia University