Lex M. Cowsert PhD

Lex M. Cowsert joined the NPKUA team as Director of Research Development in June 2018. He received his BS from the University of Florida, Gainesville, his Ph.D. from Georgetown University, Washington DC, and completed his postdoctoral studies at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, MD.

Lex has over 20 years of experience in the biotech industry where he held positions of increasing responsibility in target selection, drug discovery, preclinical development, and clinical development across a wide array of disease indications including cancer, infectious diseases, and CNS and holds 144 issued US patents. He has served on grant review committees, as lead science liaison to the FDA for active INDs, as editor and reviewer for peer-reviewed scientific journals, and on organizing committees for international scientific meetings.