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Dr. Burch received a Ph.D. in Pharmacology and M.D. from the Medical University of South Carolina and served as a Medical Staff Fellow at the Nationals Institutes of Health in the Laboratory of Julius Axelrod, NL. Ron has worked within the pharmaceutical industry for more than 20 years: at Nova Pharmaceuticals as Director, Pain & Inflammation; Rhone Poulenc Rorer as Director Immunology and Bone Metabolism; Zeneca Pharmaceuticals as Director, Pharmacology (CNS, Pulmonary and Renal) and Worldwide Head, CNS Therapeutic Area Team; Purdue Pharma as Vice President Scientific Evaluations & Immunotherapeutics and as founder of Purdue BioPharma LP. Ron founded AlgoRx Pharmaceuticals and served as CEO until its merger with Corgentech to form Anesiva. Currently Ron serves on the Board of Directors of Biowave Corp and as Chief Medical Officer of Pacira Pharmaceuticals. | 