Our Senior Management
Ralph J. Zitnik, MD
Vice President, Development
Dr. Zitnik came to Nuvelo after four years at Amgen, where he served most recently as senior director and therapeutic area head for osteoporosis, responsible for oversight of an ongoing global registrational clinical development program. Earlier in his tenure at Amgen he was global development team leader for dermatology and director in the inflammation therapeutic area, where he designed and implemented a clinical program that led successfully to U.S. and European approval for the use of Enbrel® (etanercept) in psoriasis.
From 2000 to 2002, he was medical director, clinical development at Immunex, where he led clinical research programs in rheumatology, asthma and dermatology, until Immunex was acquired by Amgen in 2002. Prior to that, he held management positions in clinical research at Pfizer and at Bayer, where he was responsible for cardiovascular, pulmonary and oncology studies.
Before joining the industry, Dr. Zitnik completed his residency in internal medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital, then trained as a fellow and was subsequently a member of the faculty in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Yale University.