Michael Fonstein

Dr. Fonstein has founded and served as CEO of several successful biotech companies including Integrated Genomics (currently Igenbio), Cleveland Biolabs (NASDAQ: CBLI), and Panacela Labs.

Through his management, the companies grew from concepts to established ventures, secured multiple rounds of financing (totaling about $200M), went public (CBLI), garnered contracts with Fortune 100 companies worth tens of millions of dollars, and procured major governmental grants and contract funding.

He is intimately familiar with drug development with experience in all of its stages, from proof-of-concept to Phase III clinical development.

During his years in academia, Dr. Fonstein founded a genomic center at the University of Chicago and became a recognized expert in this area. He published numerous papers in top peer-reviewed journals and in the early 2000s supervised sequencing and analysis of nearly 40 bacterial and fungal genomes.