Dr Martin Tolar
Founder, President & CEO Alzheon, Inc
University of Michigan
USA
Biography
Prior to founding Alzheon, Dr. Tolar held executive positions in life sciences companies, where he established and grown new companies, business areas and product opportunities. Dr. Tolar served as President & CEO of Knome, Inc., President & CEO at NormOxys, Inc., and as Chief Scientific Officer and Chief Business Officer at CoMentis, Inc., where he built the first clinical beta secretase inhibitor platform and negotiated a deal for the program for $1.1 billion with Astellas Pharma in 2008. Dr. Tolar held a variety of clinical development and business leadership positions at Pfizer, where he was instrumental in a wide range of business transactions, including acquisition of Rinat Neuroscience for $500 million in 2006, and directed programs through all stages of clinical development and FDA approval including NDA filings. During his academic career, Dr. Tolar served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology at Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Tolar was recognized as one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in the world of drug development and manufacture by The Medicine Maker Magazine’s Power Lists for 2016, 2017 and 2018
Research Interest
Alzheimer’s disease,neurodegenerative disorders,The Amyloid Cascade Hypothesis