Kathleen Czupich

Ms. Czupich has over 20 years’ experience in business development with companies ranging from early startups to multinational corporations. She is the founder and principal of Artemis Solutions, a life science service firm providing administrative, strategic and operational support to life science companies. She is co-founder and Chief Financial Officer of the Pennsylvania Drug Discovery Institute. Previously, she was the founding administrator for the Institute for Hepatitis and Virus Research and the PA Biotech Center where she managed the financial and administrative aspects of the $7.9 million grant to purchase the PA Biotech Center (PBC) and the resulting building project totaling more than $14 million. She was also instrumental in the negotiation, financing and purchase of the adjacent building, expanding the PBC to 115,000 square feet. She served as chief financial officer for multiple privately held life science companies. In these roles, she held management responsibility for finance, accounting, human resources, development and legal functions. Ms. Czupich’s particular expertise is in the application and administration of federal grants and has raised more than $20 million in non-dilutive grant funding for early stage life science companies.