Select Achievements and Experience
Dr. Tracy receives the CRS Distinguished Service Award in July 2013 from CRS President, Prof. I. Tucker (left), and Immediate Past President, Prof. K. Kataoka (right)
- Advanced nine medicines to the clinic, four of which have been commercialized:
- Nutropin® Depot (protein)
- Risperdal® Consta (small molecule)
- Vivitrol® (small molecule)
- Bydureon® (peptide)
- At Alkermes, Inc., developed the first long-acting protein approved by the FDA and commercialized (Nutropin® Depot)
- Led an international alliance of academic and industry partners while at Alnylam, Inc. that brought new nanotechnology-based RNA products to the clinic and enabled human clinical proof of concept for RNAi and a growing pipeline of RNA-based clinical programs
- Advanced the first dual targeted RNAi based therapeutic to the clinic
- Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) www.aimbe.org
- Past President, Controlled Release Society (CRS) (www.controlledreleasesociety.org)
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University
- Education
- Greater Boston Executive Program, MIT-Sloan School of Management
- Ph.D., Chemistry, Stanford University
- M.S., Chemical Engineering, Stanford University (Tau Beta Pi Fellow)
- B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois (Summa cum Laude)
BioConsulting Briefs
Mark Tracy Receives CRS Distinguished Service Award
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Interview with Mark Tracy
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