Team - PolyBlocTherapeutics

Meet the Team

Otto Phanstiel, PhD

Founder

Full Professor
UCF College of
Medicine

BS Duke University
PhD University of Florida
Postdoc: Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Florida

30 years experience in polyamine metabolism and medicinal chemistry

Susan Gilmour, PhD

Founder, Chief Scientific Officer

Professor Emeritus
Former Deputy Director
Lankenau Institute for Medical Research

BA University of Virginia
PhD Rutgers University/University of Medicine and
Dentistry
Postdoc: Wistar Institute

30 years experience in polyamine metabolism and founding member of the

ODC Mouse Group, Inc that used the K6/ODC mouse model as a rapid and
sensitive in vivo screen for carcinogens

Michael Lynch, PhD

Chief Executive Officer

Tech entrepreneurship professor
UCF

BCG Chicago
MBA University of Chicago
PhD University of Miami

20 yr biotech/medtech private equity and startup executive