Stephen Shrewsbury
Fortuna Fix, USA
Biography
Stephen Shrewsbury is currently an Executive Vice President of Development and Chief Medical Officer at Fortuna Fix, leading their novel cellular technology into multiple clinical programs focused on regenerative medicine, several of which are rare diseases. He moved to lead inhaled antibiotic programs at Chiron Corporation (in Cystic Fibrosis and other rare diseases) before becoming CMO sequentially to MAP Pharmaceuticals, Adamas Pharmaceuticals, AVI BioPharma (now Sarepta Therapeutics; where he opened their first IND for Eteplirsen in Duchenne muscular dystrophy and planned their oligomer programs against Ebola and Marburg Hemorrhagic Fevers) and Aquinox Pharmaceuticals. He is the author of Defy Your DNA and over 70 scientific papers, holds several patents and contributed to many awarded grants, mostly for work on rare diseases.
Abstract
Abstract : Cellular therapies for rare disease