Dr. Reza Fathi, Ph.D., has been Senior Vice President of Research & Development at RedHill Biopharma Ltd. since May 1, 2010. Dr. Fathi serves as Biotech Analyst at ProSeed Capital Holdings CVA and ProSeed Venture I, L.P. Prior to joining RedHill, he served as Director of Research Operations at XTL Biopharmaceuticals Inc. from 2005 to 2009. He is an expert in pharmaceutical research and development with 20 years of experience in medicinal chemistry, designing experimental protocols and managing research teams. He worked at PhytoMedical Technologies, Inc. He was Chemistry Core Manager at Harvard Medical School's Harvard Institute of Chemistry and Cell Biology. From 1998 to 2000, he served as Manager of Chemical Biology Research at the Institute of Chemistry and Chemical Biology (ICCB) at Harvard Medical School, pioneering chemical genetics to identify small molecules in cancer biology. From 1991 to 1998, he headed the Discovery Group at PharmaGenics, Inc. He was a Senior Scientist in the organic laboratory of Metrigen, NJ from 1990 to 1991. He worked at Enzo Biochem. From 2000 to 2005, Dr. Fathi served as Director of Research Operations at Vivoquest, Inc., responsible for developing a number of novel natural product based combinatorial technologies for infectious diseases such as HCV and HIV. Dr. Fathi has been a Member of Advisory Board at Cypak AB. He served as a Member of Scientific Advisory Board at Ceres Ventures, Inc. since April 2008. He was a Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for Proseed Capital Holding CVA. He has published extensively and presented his papers on numerous occasions. He is first author of numerous patents and more than a dozen scientific publications in subjects including small molecule drug discovery, lead compound identification and synthesis of natural product based molecular libraries. Dr. Fathi received his Bachelor of Science (Chemistry) from Texas Tech University (1981), was a Graduate Research Assistant at the Chemistry Department of Rutgers State University, NJ (1987), and also holds a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Chemistry and Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Rutgers University, NJ, U.S.