Dennis M. Brown, Ph.D.,
the Chairman of MVP’s Board of Directors since 2000, is the President of Valent Technologies,
LLC. In 1999 he founded ChemGenex Therapeutics, which merged with a publicly traded
Australian company in 2004 to become ChemGenex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: CXSP),
of which he served as President and a Director until 2009. He was
previously a co-founder of Matrix Pharmaceutical, Inc., where he served as Vice
President (VP) of Scientific Affairs from 1985-1995 and as VP, Discovery
Research, from 1995-1999. He also previously served as an Assistant Professor of
Radiology at Harvard University Medical School and as a Research Associate in
Radiology at Stanford University Medical School. He received his
B.A. in Biology and Chemistry (1971), M.S. in Cell Biology (1975) and Ph.D. in
Radiation and Cancer Biology (1979), all from New York University.
Dr. Brown is an inventor on about 34 issued US patents and applications, many
with foreign counterparts.