Barbara Schilberg JD

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Ms. Barbara Schilberg serves as an Advisor at BioAdvance Captial. Mr. Schilberg serves as a Board Member at IO Biosciences. She served as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer at BioAdvance. She serves as a Board Member at Keriton and Mebias Discovery. She has more than 30 years of experience working with academic technologies and start-up companies in the life sciences sector. Under her leadership as Chief Executive Officer, BioAdvance has committed $21.8 million to 31 seed-stage companies and 24 pre-seed projects focusing on areas including Alzheimer's disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, and infectious diseases. She is a board member of Immunome, Jenrin Discovery, Marillion Pharmaceuticals, Melior Pharmaceuticals, Novira Pharmaceuticals, and QR Pharma. As a senior executive with four emerging life sciences companies, her prior experience provides significant insight into the key elements needed to build successful companies including public and private financings, intellectual property protection, corporate partnering arrangements, and the management of research programs. She joined Cephalon in 1994 as Senior Vice President and General Counsel and as a member of the executive committee. As part of her responsibilities, she led a multi-disciplinary team charged with completing Phase III clinical trials and preparing a new drug application for Provigil (modafinil), which the FDA approved in December 1999. She joined Incara Pharmaceuticals in 1998 as Executive Vice President and General Counsel, where she managed a research operation in Princeton, NJ engaged in discovering new antibacterial therapeutics. She continued in that capacity after the operation's acquisition by Advanced Medicine (now Theravance) in 2000. She also served as Vice President and General Counsel at Locus Discovery, Inc., an emerging pharmaceutical company in Blue Bell, PA engaged in computational drug design. She received a J.D. from the University of Virginia and clerked with the Honorable Edward R. Becker, now Senior Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She served as a Board Member at Merganser Biotech.