Panelist Biographies
Dr. Robert Malone
principle inventor
MNRA technology
Dr. Robert Malone
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Scientifically trained at UC Davis, UC San Diego, and at the Salk Institute Molecular Biology and Virology laboratories, Dr. Malone is an internationally recognized scientist (virology, immunology, molecular biology) and is known as one of the original inventors of mRNA vaccination and DNA Vaccination. His discoveries in mRNA non-viral delivery systems are considered the key to the current COVID -19 vaccine strategies. Dr. Malone holds numerous fundamental domestic and foreign patents in the fields of gene delivery, delivery formulations, and vaccines. He received his medical training at Northwestern University (M.D.) and Harvard University (Clinical Research Post Graduate) medical school, and in Pathology at UC Davis.
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Dr. Richard Urso
Sole inventor
wound healing
drug
Dr. Urso studied medicine at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston and went on to complete his residency in ophthalmology at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas and concluded with a fellowship in oculoplastics and reconstructive surgery at the University of Texas branch at Galveston. He has served as an ophthalmologist and clinical assistant professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston as well as Assistant professor in the Department of Head and Neck Surgery at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Urso has been very involved in drug repurposing in addition to drug development and has received FDA approval for his novel wound healing drug .
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MD. Ryan Cole
Cole Diagnostics
Idaho
Ryan Cole, M.D.
Dr. Cole is a board-certified dermatophathologist (AP & CP) and the CEO/Medical Director of Cole Diagnostics. He has worked as an independent pathologist since 2004. He attended Ackerman Academy of Dermatopathology for his Dermatopathology Fellowship (Chief Fellow) after completing a Residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology with a
Surgical Pathology Fellowship at the Mayo Clinic. He has done extensive research/training in immunology.