Richard B. Bankert

Richard Bankert is the co-founder and has served as the President of Therapyx, Inc. since 2001. Dr. Bankert received both his Veterinariae Medicinae Doctoris (VMD) and his Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and is currently Professor Emeritus in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at University at Buffalo. An internationally recognized expert in tumor immunology, Dr. Bankert has pioneered the development of the human tumor/SCID mouse xenograft model for studies of human tumor immunity. Dr. Bankert continues to guide the company’s preclinical investigations and the company’s use of novel preclinical modeling of immunity.