Contact Info
Phone: Email: dave.morris@duke.edu Address: Room:
About
Dave is a senior pharmaceutical scientist with over 25 years’ experience leading multi-disciplinary line and matrix research teams spanning target identification to development candidate nomination across a range of modalities. He is the Founder and Principal Consultant of Collaborative Pharma Consulting, LLC. Dave joined the Pharmacology department at Glaxo Inc., RTP, as a Research Investigator in early 1993 and assumed responsibility for establishing core research capabilities targeting metabolic bone diseases such as osteoporosis. Over the course of his career at GlaxoSmithKline and the legacy organizations, Dave held leadership positions of increasing responsibility and accountability for early-stage drug discovery in R&D. More recently, Dave was the VP of Research Operations at Precision BioSciences, a Duke University start-up. He is an accomplished biological sciences line manager with specialization in target and hit discovery, lead optimization, technology evaluation, development and implementation. Dave also has broad therapeutic, scientific and operational experience across metabolic, infectious and rare disease areas with a proven record of successful enterprise leadership and collaborative working. Dave attended the University of Liverpool in the UK where he earned a Ph.D. in cell biology and ultrastructural anatomy with a specialization in biomineralization and the role of extracellular matrix vesicles in this process. He also has a Certificate in Organization Development from American University, Washington, D.C. Dave is a dual citizen of the UK and US and lives in Cary, North Carolina.
