Our Team

Company Executives

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Chairman of the Board

Mr. Pickens, a member of the Company's Board of Directors since 2003, became President and Chief Executive Officer in January 2007 and was appointed to the Chairman position in 2008....
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Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Porter joined the company in October 2008 and was appointed to the position of senior vice president. He is responsible for overall strategic planning and corporate development. His primary areas of focus are to advance the company’s biotechnology initiatives in microgravity processing and commercialize advance technologies that have been developed in and around the space industry....
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Scientific Advisor and Principal Investigator Vaccines

Tim Hammond is a professor of internal medicine at Tulane University School of Medicine and Associate Chief of Staff Research at the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System. He is the founder and co-director of the Tulane/VA Environmental Astrobiology Center. He is an internal medicine and nephrology physician in active academic practice. He has published over 100 peer reviewed scientific articles and is an inventor on five patents involving tissue differentiation during suspension culture in bioreactors. Dr....
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