Management Team

Thomas Schluep, Sc.D.
Vice President, Program Management

Dr. Schluep is an expert in translating delivery system and therapy innovations into pharmaceutical and biotechnology product candidates. Dr. Schluep was the Chief Scientific Officer of Insert Therapeutics, prior to its merger with Calando, where he headed drug discovery and development programs for the polymeric delivery system Cyclosert and the IT-101 candidate. While at Insert, he drove IT-101 from the laboratory to Phase I clinical trial in less than two years. Prior to joining Insert, Dr. Schluep was responsible for the non-viral gene therapy program at Canji, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Schering-Plough. At Canji, he successfully led an interdisciplinary team of scientists in their efforts to develop synthetic gene delivery vehicles for the systemic treatment of cancer with the p53 tumor suppressor gene. Prior to Canji, Dr. Schluep was a post-doctoral associate at the department of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his Sc.D. in Process Engineering in 1995 and an MS in Biotechnology in 1989, both from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland.