Our Team
Yow-Pin Lim, MD, PhD
Yow-Pin Lim, MD, PhD is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ProThera Biologics. He is an adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Brown University. Yow-Pin graduated from the Medical School at the Free University in Berlin, Germany. His dissertation research focused on the purification and characterization of the annexin family of calcium binding proteins in rat liver and hepatocellular carcinoma. This work earned him the doctoral degree (MD/PhD equivalent in the U.S.) magna cum laude. He came to the United States in 1990 for post-doctoral training in the Division of Medical Oncology at Rhode Island Hospital/Brown University under the supervision of Dr. Douglas Hixson. His training included the use of a variety of methods for protein study and immunochemistry, including purification and characterization of novel biomolecules in serum and liver. During his tenure at Rhode Island Hospital he generated unique monoclonal antibodies against plasma proteins and initiated research on a plasma serine protease inhibitor in inflammation and cancer. In 2001 he co-founded ProThera Biologics which is dedicated to the development of Inter-alpha Inhibitor Proteins (IAIP) as a prognostic biomarker and novel therapeutic for treating acute, severe inflammatory diseases.
During the past 15 years, he has made major contributions to the understanding of the role of IAIP in human physiology and in human disease. Through a series of collaborative studies, he has demonstrated the potential of IAIP for treating acute systemic inflammation/shock syndrome triggered by agents such as anthrax, dengue hemorrhagic fever and influenza and developed proprietary manufacturing processes for IAIP. Recently he has focused on the potential of the beneficial effects of IAIP in treating acute lung diseases such as severe pneumonia, hypoxic-ischemic brain injury, ischemic stroke and necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC).
Moses Goddard, MD
Patrice Milos, PhD
Key Collaborators and Advisors
Lung
Steven Opal, MD: Professor of Medicine, Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University and former Chief of Infectious Diseases at Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island.
Stavros Garantziotis, MD: National Institutes of Health/NIEHS/Medical Director Clinical Research Unit. Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center
Jay Steingrub, MD: Baystate Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. Vice Chair for Research, Department of Medicine, Director Medical ICU, Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of medicine.
Gregory Jay, MD: Professor and Vice Chair for Research in Emergency Medicine, Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University and Rhode Island and Miriam Hospitals
Neuro inflammation: Stroke and Neonatal Brain Injury
Barbara Stonestreet, MD: Neonatologist, Women & Infants Hospital/ Professor, Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University
Neonatal inflammation
James F. Padbury, MD: Women & Infants Hospital/ Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University. Chief of Neonatal Medicine
Hala Chaaban, MD: Assistant Professor in Pediatrics, University of Oklahoma, College of Medicine.
Board of Directors
Thorne Sparkman – Managing Director, Slater Technology Fund
Richard Andrews – CEO Azitra Inc.
Yow-Pin Lim – Founder, CEO ProThera Biologics
Moses Goddard – Co-founder and CEO of Cytosolv
Patrice Milos – RI Bio Board Chair