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Edgardo Baracchini, Ph.D., M.B.A., Senior Vice President of Business Development - Edgardo Baracchini, Ph.D., M.B.A. has served as our Vice President of Business Development since May 2002. Dr. Baracchini has over ten years' experience in structuring and negotiating research and development partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, and in-licensing arrangements with leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies including Merck, Novo Nordisk, Roche, LG Chem, Boehringer Ingleheim, Zeneca, Incyte Genomics, Medichem, Trega, Axys, Inhale Therapeutics and ICOS. Prior to joining Metabasis, since 1999 Dr. Baracchini was an officer and Vice President of Business Development at Elitra Pharmaceuticals. From 1996 to 1999, Dr. Baracchini served as the Director of Business Development at Agouron Pharmaceuticals, and as Assistant Director of Business Development at Isis Pharmaceuticals from 1992 to 1996. Dr. Baracchini holds a Ph.D. in molecular and cell biology from the University of Texas at Dallas, an M.B.A. from the University of California, Irvine and a B.S. degree in microbiology from the University of Notre Dame.
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