Joseph Stauffer

An anesthesiologist, Dr. Stauffer has served as CMO in public and private drug therapy companies for nearly 20 years, building teams of physicians, scientists, regulators and safety experts to drive clinical success for a number of chronic and acute pain assets. Dr. Stauffer will assume a leadership role in Antibe’s clinical development strategy and its increasing engagement with global regulatory agencies and potential large-market partners.

Following his medical training, Dr. Stauffer practiced frontline medicine for a decade, including eight years as a US Navy general practice physician. He then joined the US Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) as a Medical Review Officer for anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs, subsequently being recruited by Abbott Laboratories as Global Medical Director. Over the succeeding years, Dr. Stauffer led clinical operations, regulatory and medical affairs teams at Alpharma and Ikaria, each of which was acquired in $1.6 billion cash transactions. He was also instrumental in guiding the clinical development programs that underpinned equity raises totaling more than $250 million for Cara Therapeutics, a developer of novel chemical entities to treat post-operative pain and chronic itch in Chronic Kidney Disease.

Dr. Stauffer earned his medical degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed his anesthesiology residency at Johns Hopkins University Hospital, where he maintained a part-time Assistant Professorship until 2016. He earned his MBA degree in a joint program at New York University, the London School of Economics in the UK, and the Hautes Etudes Commerciales management school in Paris, France. Dr. Stauffer is a founding member of the Initiative on Methods, Measurement and Pain Assessment in Clinical Trials (“IMMPACT”), which became an official public-private partnership among pharmaceutical companies, the FDA, the National Institutes of Health, academia and patient advocacy organizations across the USA.