Management

Dr. Prudent brings over 20 years of biotechnology industry related experience to Centrose. Before Centrose, Dr. Prudent served as Chief Scientific Officer and Member of the Board of Directors at EraGen Biosciences and was an essential part of raising over $26 million in equity and grant funds for EraGen. He was responsible for technology and product development in the areas of cancer, infectious disease, cardiology, cystic fibrosis and general life science. Before EraGen, he worked at Third Wave Technologies (now Hologic Inc.) where he co-invented the Invader® Technology. Dr. Prudent was an integral part of transforming Invader into a multi-million dollar product line. Prior to Third Wave, Dr. Prudent worked for IGEN International (acquired by Roche in 2003) where he pioneered new methods of rapidly producing monoclonal antibodies.

He was recipient of the Frost and Sullivan 2005 Product of the Year Award and received the "Biotechnology Industry Organization's 2006 Innovation Award". Dr. Prudent received his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the UC - Berkeley  and his B.S. in Bacteriology and Medical Microbiology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Dr. Shekhani brings over 25 years of experience to Centrose. Prior to joining Centrose, he served as a consultant with several pharmaceutical companies where he managed discovery and development projects for his clients. Prior to that, he established and led the chemistry program of PanVera Corporation that was later acquired by Invitrogen through a series of successive acquisitions. At PanVera, Dr. Shekhani developed technology for high throughput drug discovery that led to products generating multimillion dollar revenues. Prior to PanVera, Dr. Shekhani was a lead chemist at Sandoz (now Novartis). Prior to moving to the pharmaceutical industry, he held academic positions in Europe and Asia. He specializes in synthetic organic chemistry, natural product chemistry and medicinal chemistry. He is an inventor and has author of numerous publications and books in the areas of organic chemistry. He has received prestigious honors and awards that include Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, European Community Fellowship, International Centre of Sciences (Sweden) Fellowship and International centre of Chemistry (Trieste, Italy) Fellowship. He has served as the General Secretary of IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) Natural Product Symposium. He received his PhD in Synthetic Organic Chemistry from State University of New York at Stony Brook.