Board of Directors

Philip B. Simon, C.P.A. is the current Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors. Mr. Simon is a partner of Howson & Simon LLP and the president of Lawrence Investments, LLC, one of Quark’s major investors. Mr. Simon serves on the boards of directors of several private companies affiliated with Lawrence Investments. Mr. Simon joined Lawrence Investments in 1997. Mr. Simon has worked for 25 years as a partner at Howson & Simon. Mr. Simon holds an A.B. from Yale University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. He is a member of the California Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Daniel Zurr, Ph.D. is the Company’s President, Chief Executive Officer and a current member of the Board of Directors. Dr. Zurr founded Quark in 1993. Prior to joining Quark, Dr. Zurr served as Vice President for Corporate Business Development for Israel Chemicals, Ltd. From 1980 to 1983, Dr. Zurr served as the Director of Licensing at G.D. Searle, a specialty pharmaceutical company. Dr. Zurr was the Chief Executive Officer of Plantex-Ikapharm, a pharmaceutical company, from 1972 to 1980. Dr. Zurr obtained his M.Sc. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his Ph.D. from Imperial College, University of London.

Yoshitaka Kitao is the Chief Executive Officer and Representative Director of SBI Holdings, Inc., SBI Investment Co., Ltd., SBI Capital Co., Ltd. and SBI Card Co., Ltd. He is the Chief Executive Officer and Director of SBI VeriTrans Co., Ltd. and Morningstar Japan K.K. He is the Chairman and Director of SBI Mortgage Co., Ltd., Gomez Consulting Co., Ltd. and SBI Securities Co., Ltd. He is the Representative Director of Wall Street Journal Japan K.K. and Director of SBI Benefit Systems Co., Ltd. He was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of SOFTBANK Corp. from 1995 to 2000 and a Director of SOFTBANK Corp. from 2000 to 2005. He was the Chief Executive Officer and Representative Director of SOFTBANK Finance Corporation from 1999 to 2005. Previously, Mr. Kitao was also the Director of Nomura Wasserstein Perella Co., Ltd. from 1991 to 1992, Managing Director of Wasserstein Perella & Co. International, Ltd. from 1989 to 1992 and was the General Manager for the Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. Corporate Finance and Services Dept. III from 1992 to 1995. Mr. Kitao obtained degrees in Economics from Keio University and Cambridge University.

Robert Takeuchi is currently a director of SBI Investment Co., Ltd. a private equity investment company. From 1996 to 2004 he was President of SOFTBANK Finance, America Corporation and from 1988 to 1996 he was a Director of CS First Boston. Mr. Takeuchi obtained a B.A. in Economics form the University of California, Los Angeles.

Toru Mio is Chief Executive of Mio & Company Inc., a management consulting company based in Tokyo, Japan. From 1988 to 2005 Mr. Mio held various management positions at Nikko Citigroup Limited, including head of the Mergers and Acquisitions Group and co-head of the Consumer & Healthcare Group, where he engaged in a wide range of investment banking activities. From 2005 to 2010, he was a founding partner and investment committee member of Asuka DBJ Partners Co., Ltd. Mr. Mio also presently serves as Vice Chairman of Monex Hambrecht & Co. Japan, Inc., Director of So-net Entertainment Corporation, and Advisor of Japan Asia Investment Co., Ltd.. He holds a M.A. in International Relations from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, and a B.A. in Latin American studies from the University of Tokyo.

Philip M. Hahn served as Vice President and Assistant General Counsel at Pfizer, Inc. from 1978 to 2008. Mr. Hahn has extensive experience in structuring, negotiating and drafting major licenses and collaborations with U.S. pharmaceutical and biotech companies, as well as European and Japanese companies and broad experience in pharmaceutical and medical device businesses, including research, development, manufacturing and commercialization of products in the U.S. and ex-US markets. Mr. Hahn is also knowledgeable in the areas of commercial, patent, anti-trust, bankruptcy, food and drug, and licensing law. Mr. Hahn is a member of the Bar of the City of New York (Member, Committee on Medicine and Law, Committee on Professional Responsibility, Patent Law Committee); New York State Bar Association; Lecturer, American Conference Institute and CLE programs of Association of Bar of City of New York; Member of New York Regional Board of Anti-Defamation League. Mr. Hahn holds an A.B. magna cum laude from Brown University, an L.L.B. from Yale Law School.



 
8/18/2010
Quark Pharmaceuticals and Major Pharmaceutical Company Enter into Licensing Option Agreement for the p53 Suppressor Drug QPI-1002, the First siRNA Administered Systemically in Human
 
7/15/2010
Nitto Denko and Quark Pharmaceuticals to Enter into Collaboration to Develop a Novel siRNA Anti-fibrotic Drug
 
6/28/2010
Quark Pharmaceutical’s QPI-1007 Exhibits Neuroprotective Effects in Glaucoma Model
 
6/24/2010
Quark Pharmaceuticals Announces Presentations of its Two siRNA Drug Candidates at Glaucoma & Retinopathies 2010
 
6/15/2010
Quark Granted European Orphan Drug Status for QPI-1002 for the Prophylaxis of Delayed Graft Function in Kidney Transplant Patients
 
6/10/2010
Quark Pharmaceuticals Closes $10 Million Financing
SBI Holdings, Inc. CEO Yoshitaka Kitao Appointed to Board. Funds to Support Advancing Clinical Pipeline.
 
5/17/2010
Quark Pharmaceuticals Announces Nature Medicine Publication for Role of RTP801 in Pulmonary Injury and Emphysema
 
5/6/2010
Quark Pharmaceuticals Development Partner Pfizer Presents In Vivo Activity of PF-04523655 at ARVO
 
5/4/2010
Quark to Present Data on Predicting Risk of Delayed Graft Function in Kidney Transplant Patients at American Transplant Congress
 
5/4/2010
Quark to Present Phase I Data for QPI-1002 in DGF
 
3/1/2010
Quark Announces Dosing of the First Patient in Phase I Clinical Trial of its Ocular Neuroprotective Agent, QPI-1007
 
2/16/2010
FDA Grants Orphan Drug Status for Quark’s QPI-1002 for the Prophylaxis of Delayed Graft Function in Kidney Transplant Patients
 
12/6/2009
Quark Pharmaceuticals Poised to Advance Clinical Studies of QPI-1002
First Synthetic siRNA Administered Systemically to Humans for the Prophylaxis of Acute Kidney Injury and Delayed Graft Function
 
11/19/2009
Quark Reports Progress of siRNA Clinical Programs; 300 Patients Dosed With Quark Pharmaceuticals siRNA Drugs In Multiple Fully Enrolled Clinical Trials
 
11/2/2009
Quark Pharmaceuticals to Present Data on its siRNA Therapeutic Programs in Kidney and Lung Diseases
 
10/26/2009
Quark Pharmaceuticals Expands International Patent Protection for Compounds Targeting the RTP801 Gene
 
8/4/2009
Quark Pharmaceuticals to Participate in IBC’s Oligonucleotide Therapeutics: From Concept to Implementation Conference
 
7/28/2009
Quark Pharmaceuticals Announces Data Indicating Potential Utility of QPI-1007 for Treatment of Glaucoma
 
6/9/2009
Quark Announces the Presentation of Data Indicating Potential Utility of QPI-1002 in Chronic Kidney Disease at the RNA Interference Summit
 
5/14/2009
Quark Pharmaceuticals Presents Data on Synthetic siRNAs for Prevention of Ocular and Inner Ear Sensory Cell Damage
 
5/11/2009
Quark Pharmaceuticals Presented At ARVO Data Showing That PF-04523655 Enters Retinal Cells And Elicits Its Pharmacologic Effect Via Target Gene Knock-Down Without Activating TLR3
 
4/20/2009
Quark Pharmaceuticals Presents at American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Annual Meeting
 
3/9/2009
Quark Pharmaceuticals Presents at Asia TIDES Conference
Highlights First Systemic siRNA Administered in Humans and Quark’s Proprietary siRNA Structures
 
1/8/2009
Quark Announces Dosing of the First Patient in Phase I/II Clinical Trial for Systemically Delivered siRNA Drug Candidate for Delayed Graft Function
Kidney transplantation to be Quark’s second indication with clinical-stage, systemically administered siRNA product candidate for Delayed Graft Function
 
12/1/2008
Quark Pharmaceuticals to Present at the 20th Annual Piper Jaffray Health Care Conference
Presentation to Highlight Results of Ocular Neuroprotection Candidate
 
10/13/2008
Quark Pharmaceuticals Announces Publication of Study on Use of siRNA against Proprietary Target for Inhibiting Tumor Growth and Sensitization of Cancer Cells to Chemotherapy
Quark siRNAs Examined Alone and in Combination with Chemotherapy
 
9/25/2008
Quark Announces First RNAi Drug Candidate Having a Novel, Proprietary Structure Covered by Quark Intellectual Property
Data Validates Neuroprotective Effect of Quark’s New RNAi product on dying Retinal Ganglion Cells, a Cause of Blindness in Glaucoma
 
9/17/2008
Quark Pharmaceuticals Announces Poster Presentations at RNAi Europe 2008
 
7/30/2008
Quark Announces First Patient Dosing by Pfizer in Phase II Trial of RNAi Therapy in DME
Clinical Program Leverages Quark’s RNAi Technology
 
4/7/2008
Quark Receives FDA Approval of IND For Kidney Transplant
Quark’s second siRNA drug delivered systemically
 
4/7/2008
Quark Closes $27 Million Financing
Funds Will Support Clinical Development of Pipeline Products
 
12/23/2007
Quark to Present at JPMorgan 26th Annual Healthcare Conference
Quark Pharmaceuticals to Present New Preclinical Proof of Concept Results at JPMorgan 26th Annual Healthcare Conference
 
11/19/2007
Quark Announces First Systemic siRNA Dosing
Quark Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Announces First Systemic siRNA Dosing in Humans. Commences Phase I Clinical Trial of Proprietary siRNA Molecule in Acute Renal Failure.
 
10/23/2007
Quark to Present at CIBC and Acumen BioFin Rodman & Renshaw
Quark Pharmaceuticals to Present at CIBC World Markets 18th Annual Healthcare Conference and Acumen BioFin Rodman & Renshaw 9th Annual Healthcare Conference
 
10/10/2007
Development Milestone Payment from Mitsubishi
Quark Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to Receive Development Milestone Payment from Mitsubishi Pharma Corporation
 
9/25/2007
Development of Proprietary siRNA Compounds for Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
Quark Pharmaceuticals Signs Collaboration Agreement with University of Michigan for Development of Proprietary siRNA Compounds for Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
 
8/28/2007
Patent Application on RNAi molecules
 Quark Pharmaceuticals Files Patent Application Covering Novel Chemical Modifications To Its RNAi Molecules
 
8/21/2007
Agreement with University of NY
Quark Pharmaceuticals Extends Research Agreement with State University of New York for Proprietary siRNA Compounds for Acute Hearing Loss
 
8/6/2007
Positive Preclinical Results
Quark Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Presented Positive Preclinical Results of Systemic RNAi Compound for Acute Renal Failure (ARF)
Quark to initiate Phase 1 trial of AKIi-5 as the first human clinical study involving the systemic delivery of siRNA
 
7/31/2007
Silence Therapeutics and Quark
Silence Therapeutics plc and Quark Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Quark”), announced today an expansion of their current strategic technology licensing agreement
 
9/26/2006
Pfizer and Quark
Pfizer expands research commitment to ophthalmology through licensing agreement with quark biotech...
 
6/19/2005
COPD
Quark Biotech Discovers Role of RTP801 as Signaling Molecule in Cigarette Smoking-Induced Pulmonary Injury...
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