R. Loch MacDonald M.D., Ph.D.
Co-Founder, Chief Scientific Officer and Director
Dr. R. Loch MacDonald, M.D., Ph.D., is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Edge Therapeutics, Inc. since 2008. Dr. Macdonald is widely considered as a top expert in the world on cerebral vasospasm. His 20 years of unrelenting research has led Edge Therapeutics to its first product, NimoGel, to cure vasospasm. Recent articles published by Dr. Macdonald are Clazosentan to Overcome Neurological Ischemia and Infarction Occurring After Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (CONSCIOUS-1), Management of cerebral vasospasm, Prognostic Factors for Outcome in Patients With Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage and Voltage-gated K+ channel dysfunction in myocytes from a dog model of subarachnoid hemorrhage. He has published over 400 articles on the topic of cerebral vasospasm, authored textbooks and written numerous book chapters on the topic. He is a frequent speaker worldwide on the topic of cerebral vasospasm. Prior to becoming Chair at St. Michael's Hospital, he was Professor of Surgery and Radiation & Cellular Oncology at the University of Chicago Medical Center. He has been a Director of Edge Therapeutics, Inc. since 2009. He completed medical school at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and completed his Ph.D., (Experimental Surgery), at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, under the guidance of Dr. Bryce Weir. Following his Ph.D. Dr. Macdonald completed his Neurosurgery residency at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.