Dr. Eric G. Mortensen, M.D., Ph.D. has been Chief Medical Officer at Cytosorbents Corporation since June 01, 2017. Dr. Mortensen has been Chief Medical Officer at CytoSorbents Incorporated since June 26, 2017. He has more than 20 years of clinical trial experience. He has led clinical development of key programs for some of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, including Pfizer's novel rheumatoid arthritis therapy, Xeljanz??, which has achieved approximately $1 billion in annual worldwide sales. He has more than two decades of proven and successful clinical trial development expertise as well as a wealth of knowledge and experience in immunology, inflammation and clinical medicine. He served as Vice President & Therapeutic Area Clinical Head for Inflammation and Immunology at Pfizer from 2014 to 2016 and led the company's global, late-stage development organization for programs in inflammatory diseases including studies for Enbrel?? and Xeljanz??. As the Clinical Inflammation Development Strategy Lead and co-chair for Inflammation's Therapeutic Area Strategy Team (TAST), he ensured an integrated approach to the development of medicines across the different indications within Inflammation and Immunology. Dr. Mortensen previously held positions of increasing responsibility as the Vice President, Global Medicine Development Group Global Lead for Xeljanz and Assistant Vice President and Global Therapeutic Area Director for Enbrel. Previously at GlaxoSmithKline, he led clinical programs for the reintroduction of alosetron to the US market, the registration program for alvimopan and medical affairs programs for assets within Women's Health, Urology, Acute Care, Gastrointestinal and Ophthalmologic business units. Prior to this, at Merck Research Laboratories, he was responsible for registration studies of the COX2 inhibitors rofecoxib and etoricoxib. Dr. Mortensen received an A.B. in Biochemistry from Harvard College, an M.D. from the Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), and a Ph.D. in Biophysics at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences where he studied the transduction of membrane-bound hormone receptor's binding into intracellular activation of metabolic activity and cellular proliferation. Dr. Mortensen completed an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital and a fellowship in Gastroenterology at the University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor.