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Harold

Thibodeaux

Research Investigator

Research Triangle Park, NC

Harold is a preclinical scientist with in vivo pharmacological experience in both academia and biopharmaceutical industry. In his prestigious career, he expertly wore several hats while organizing training workshops and introducing technological advances that saved thousands of research dollars for his companies. Harold is a reliable team player who is proud of accomplishing departmental and corporate goals. When called upon, Harold met the challenge to develop in vivo cardiovascular models, used his surgical expertise to train staff and provided his scientific writing skill to construct study protocols. Harold has built a reputation for leading preclinical studies from first-in-class to best-in-class medicines for unmet medical needs. Harold joined the pharmacology department at a young startup company in 1999 and designed the cardiovascular laboratory that was used to evaluate the preclinical safety of early lead drug development candidates. In addition to his energy and determination to succeed, he used his organizational skills and scientific knowledge to perform studies and ultimately provided data that resulted in creating a company pipeline of drug candidates and two business partnerships with major pharmaceutical companies. Additionally, he championed an exploratory project currently in preclinical development. During his career, Harold has trained many young scientists who eventually became pharmacology department chairmen, directors and a vice-president. Harold graduated from the College of Charleston with a Bachelor of Science Degree in biology. He has authored 23 published articles and discussed his work with poster presentation at major scientific meetings. He is proud to have been a player in both the academic and biopharmaceutical industry.