Mr. DeMars has held management positions with Glaxo (now GlaxoSmithKline), Miles (now Bayer), ClinTrials Research and PharmaResearch Corporation (two contract research organizations since acquired by Inveresk Research). His extensive experience has covered all areas of new biomedical product development, including academic ("bench") research, clinical trials design and management, protocol conception and development, medical writing (manuscripts, abstracts, summary reports, IND/NDA sections, package inserts) and the vital transition between R&D and marketing. Mr. DeMars has a deep appreciation of the important – yet often overlooked – link between academia and the private sector in new product development, as he successfully established and directed an Office of Biomedical Industry Relations at a US medical school.