Michael T. Redman, CEO & Board Member
Mr. Redman is the chief executive officer of Oncolix, Inc. and
has served in this position since formation of the company in November of 2006.
Prior to Oncolix, Mr. Redman was the CEO of Bone Medical, a
public company focused in the area of oral peptide delivery of products related
to musculoskeletal disorders. Immediately prior to Bone Medical, Mr. Redman was
the CEO and co-founder of Opexa Pharmaceuticals, which commenced operations in
February of 2001 and was successfully sold to PharmaFrontiers Corporation in
November of 2004. PharmaFrontiers later reorganized the company, which is now
named Opexa Therapeutics, a NASDAQ-listed company.
His career spans over 25 years in the pharmaceuticals and
biotechnology industry and encompasses leadership in sales, marketing, business
and commercial development. In addition to the three companies in which he
served as CEO, Mr. Redman also held key management positions with Zonagen,
Aronex Pharmaceuticals, Biovail, and American Home Products.
Mr. Redman has been instrumental in closing multiple
pharmaceutical licensing deals, both domestic and international. These deals
include in-licensing of university and NIH intellectual property, acquisitions
and divestitures. He is an active member of the Licensing Executives Society and
formerly served on its Executive Committee. Mr. Redman earned a BA in Biology
from the University of Missouri and a Masters in Business Administration from
the University of Phoenix.
Donald Payne, CPA, MBA, SVP of Finance and Administration
Mr. Payne serves as the Senior Vice President of Finance
and Administration. He is responsible for financial, accounting,
intellectual property administration and general administration of the
Company’s activities.
Mr. Payne has held various senior management positions at Nanospectra
Biosciences, Sensus Drug Development, LifeCell Corporation, Aprogenex and
Entex Energy. His financial experience includes initial public
offerings on the New York and
American Stock Exchanges and numerous private offerings. He has is a
co-author of 9 scientific publications and is a co-inventor of 4 issued or
pending patent applications. At Nanospectra, he led the preclinical
development and toxicity program, successfully filed an IDE for a cancer
therapy, and led the company through its initial pilot human trial.
Mr. Payne received an MBA from Rice University
in 1992, a BBA from Texas A&M University
in 1976 and is a licensed CPA (Texas,
1978). He is currently a Director and the Chairman of the Audit Committee
of Pressure Biosciences (Nasdaq:PBIO) and a Director of Nanospectra
Biosciences. He also holds various advisory positions to academic and
economic development entities.
George Peoples, Jr., MD, FACS.
Dr. Peoples graduated from West Point in 1984 and from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1988. After a surgical internship at Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC),
he completed his surgical training at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA in 1996. During that time, Dr. Peoples also completed a research fellowship at the
Laboratory of Biologic Cancer Therapy at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Peoples completed a surgical oncology fellowship at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX in 1998.
He was the previous Chief, Surgical Oncology at WRAMC from 1998-2006 and now serves in that role at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. He is the Director and Principal Investigator
of the Cancer Vaccine Development Program associated with the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Deputy Director of the United States Military Cancer Institute.
Dr. Peoples holds 7 patents and 5 INDs and is currently the PI on 7 cancer vaccine clinical trials being conducted at 12 military and civilian sites. He has written extensively on the
immune response to cancer.
William E. Gannon, Jr., M.D., M.B.A. Chief Regulatory Officer
William E. Gannon, MD,
MBA, is the Chief Regulatory Officer of Oncolix. In addition to receiving
his medical training and clinical work at Ross University, Case Western Reserve
and George Washington University, Dr. Gannon obtained an M.B.A. in 1988 and has
since built a wealth of experience in the management of clinical trials
including designing the trials and building operational teams to ensure their
successful completion.
Dr. Gannon has over 20 years experience in the regulatory and clinical trials
arena. He has held positions in
multinational CROs, medical device, biotech and pharmaceutical firms, primarily
in the field of cancer. Dr. Gannon has substantial expertise with protocol
development and clinical trial management. He has been responsible for numerous
regulatory submissions and execution of Phase I through Phase IV trials in the
US, Europe and Asia.