Key Personnel

Dr. Gerold Feuer, PhD

Founder and Chief Scientific Officer

Dr. Gerold Feuer is the founder of HuMurine Technologies and serves as its chief scientific officer and chairman of the board. He is a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at SUNY Upstate Medical University and is the Director of the Center for Humanized SCID Mouse Models. Dr. Feuer has over twenty years of experience working with humanized mouse models including the development of the first humanized mouse model to study HIV infection. Dr. Feuer has authored over 35 peer-reviewed research articles and was recently awarded two contracts totaling over $6 million from the New York State Stem Cell Initiative (NYSTEM) to expand, develop and standardize new humanized mouse models for infectious diseases and stem cell therapies. Dr. Feuer received a BA from UC Berkeley and a PhD from UC Irvine. He was a special fellow of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society while being a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Irvin Chen at the UCLA School of Medicine.

Dr. Jenny Rowe, PhD

Director of Lab Operations

Dr. Jenny Rowe joined HuMurine as the Director of Lab Operations in the fall of 2010. A virologist by training Dr. Rowe has extensive experience in the field of humanized mice models including the development of a Hu-SCID mouse model to test novel therapeutic targets against human herpes viruses.

Mary Ruth Hughes

General Counsel

Mary Ruth Hughes joined HuMurine as General Counsel in August 2010. She has extensive experience advising clients, large and small, with a focus on corporate transactions. After practicing in the corporate department of a large law firm in Los Angeles, Mary Ruth began her own practice and guides clients through a wide array of legal issues. She has successfully consummated a variety of transactions, including complex public company mergers, private equity acquisitions and divestitures, joint ventures, capital market transactions, and financings. Mary Ruth is also accomplished in a broad range of other legal matters, such as SEC reporting, general corporate advice, contract negotiation and dispute resolution. Mary Ruth attended the University of Southern California Law School and received her Juris Doctor in 2002.

Scientific Advisory Board

Dr. Jerome Zack, PhD

Dr. Jerome Zack is a Professor in the Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Medicine, and Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He also serves as the Associate Director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA, where he is the Director of the Human Embryonic Stem Cell Bank. Dr. Zack is also the Director of the UCLA Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) and has made seminal contributions in the fields of virology, immunology and stem cell research. His lab has pioneered the modeling of HIV-1 pathogenesis and stem-cell gene therapy for AIDS in SCID-hu mice. Dr. Zack has over a 100 peer-reviewed research articles and has received numerous national and international awards.

Dr. Craig Jordan, PhD

Dr. Craig Jordan is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center and a Professor of Biomedical Genetics at the University of Rochester School of Medicine. His lab has pioneered research on leukemic stem cells and their therapeutic targeting in order to understand the complexity of the emerging paradigm of cancer stem cells. Dr. Jordan has published over 70 peer-reviwed research articles and has received numerous awards including the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Stohlman Scholar award.

Dr. Ralph Feuer, PhD

Dr. Ralph Feuer is an Assistant Professor of Cell & Molecular Biology in the Department of Biology at San Diego State University. Dr. Feuer trained in viral pathogenesis at the Scripps Research Institute. Dr. Feuer's lab focuses on studying coxsackievirus tropism, persistence, and pathogenesis in the central nervous system (CNS). Dr. Feuer has published over 20 peer-reviewed research articles.