As president and CEO of Sea Run Holdings, Evelyn S. Sawyer, Ph.D., received the 1999 Tibbetts Award from the Small Business Administration for innovative research.
Dr. Paul Janmey is the Company's chief scientist. He is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Institute of Medicine and Engineering, specializing in protein biochemistry and polymer biophysics. He heads a team of post-doctoral students and technicians supported in part by Sea Run Holdings.
Charlton Ames is Chairman of the Board of Sea Run Holdings. He has an MBA from Harvard and a background in venture capital. He is responsible for the Company's business relationships. His current focus is on the partnership with Cooke Aquaculture that gives Sea Run access to the blood from their millions of farmed salmon. Cooke is the largest grower of farmed salmon in North America, which means that Sea Run Holdings can supply customers with large quantities of material for any time frame that is required. |
|
Drs. Sawyer, Janmey and Dr. Lisa Flanagan, a neurobiologist at the University of California, Irvine, have worked together for the past several years on a number of salmon plasma projects funded by Sea Run Holdings, and by the National Institutes of Health. Research by this team has resulted in the commercialization of several products and recent publications.
As part of the alliance of Sea Run with Cooke Aquaculture, Cooke has strengthened the Company's R&D capability by bringing in the National Research Council of Canada (NRC). This includes fish biochemists, physiologists, regulatory consultants and technicians.
|
|
