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NBS Leadership

Nouveau's integrated team of leaders and advisors combine unprecedented business, science, translational and regulatory expertise in the field of oncology.

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Owen A. O’Connor, M.D., Ph.D. | Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

  • American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professor

  • 25 years leading translational research programs in academic medicine at premier cancer centers in the U.S.

  • Over 35+ inventions filed in U.S. and Ex-U.S. territories

  • 8 drugs approved across 50 countries

  • Experience as Chief Scientific Officer overseeing approvals of drugs in B-cell lymphoma, autoimmune D/O & pipeline development

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Tara Spiess Restieri | Chief Operating Officer

  • Over 25 years in operations, finance, investment banking, oncology drug development, investor relations and corporate communications

  • Experience in academic clinical trial monitoring and data analysis in oncology

  • Responsible for operations for a turnaround oncology company

  • Built advisory firm for public and private biotechnology companies to advise and manage investor relations, corporate communications and business development

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Thomas Loughran, M.D. | Senior Vice President of Scientific Affairs

President, Nanovations Laboratory

  • Director of the University of Virginia Comprehensive Cancer Center, an NCI Designated Cancer Center

  • F. Palmer Weber-Smithfield Foods Professor of Oncology Research

  • Discovered LGL leukemia

  • Worked in laboratory of the Noble Laureate E. D. Thomas

  • Continuous federal funding for his laboratory over the past 36 years totaling over $115M over his career 

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Thomas Mehrling, M.D., Ph.D | Corporate & Business Development Advisor

  • President & CEO, Leavorac Group

  • Former CEO of MundiPharma EDO

  • More than 20 years in all phases oncology drug developmen

  • Focused on the treatment and development of therapeutics in cardiology, haematology/oncology and paediatric oncology

  • Board certified pharmacologist

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