Larry A. Sklar

Larry (Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, Stanford U.) is PI and Director of both the University of New Mexico Center for Molecular Discovery (CMD) and the Chemical Biology Consortium Center for the NCI Experimental Therapeutics Program, as well as Co-PI of the NIH Illuminating the Druggable Genome Initiative. He is Regents Professor of Pathology, Distinguished University Professor, Maralyn S. Budke and Robert E. Anderson Endowed Chair in Cancer Drug Discovery in the NCI Designated University of New Mexico Cancer Center, and leader of a national drug repurposing network for the Clinical and Translational Science Center (CTSC) Consortium.

He has >400 publications and patents in leukocyte biology, molecular assembly in signal transduction and cell adhesion, as well as high throughput flow cytometry for drug discovery and repurposing leading to clinical trials. He is co-inventor of the HyperCyt high throughput flow cytometry platform and co-founder of the Albuquerque startup Intellicyt which licensed the technology and was recently acquired by Sartorius. He has made intellectual property contributions to several biotech and startup companies.