Barry R. Holtz

Dr. Holtz is now the principal consultant at Holtz Biopharma Consulting, a founding member of the Klyo Collaborative. He has extensive expertise in providing consulting services to the biopharmaceutical development and manufacturing industry including facilities design, process development and quality systems development. Dr. Holtz was the Co-Founder of G-CON Manufacturing, maker of autonomous cleanrooms and Caliber Biotherapeutics, developer and manufacturer of plant-made biotherapeutics. Dr. Holtz was the Senior Vice President of Biopharmaceutical Development for Large Scale Biology Corporation (LSBC) for 15 years and was an integral member of the management team that successfully took the company from a start-up to a publicly-traded company. Dr. Holtz was responsible for the product development, long-term regulatory strategy, and clinical development and manufacturing compliance of the company’s proprietary therapeutics portfolio. Dr. Holtz has held research management positions at Foremost-McKesson and was on the faculty of Ohio State University. He received his Ph.D. at Pennsylvania State University and was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Dr. Holtz has been awarded 23 U.S. patents and has published more than 50 scientific papers. He was awarded the Pennsylvania State University, Outstanding Alumni Award in 2003. Dr. Holtz will provide research management services to AzarGen including: regulatory affairs planning and execution, and assistance in CMO management and technology transfer. Dr. Holtz will also serve on the AzarGen scientific advisory board.