Terry Opgenorth

Dr. Opgenorth serves as Vice President of CSU Ventures and Executive Director, NewCo Launchpad. He retired from Abbott Laboratories (now AbbVie) in 2007, where he was Divisional Vice President of Metabolic Disease Research, Antiviral Research and Target-Lead Discovery Research for Abbott’s Global Pharmaceutical Research and Development Division. At Abbott he championed a number of biotechnology collaborations, and led teams that advanced multiple drug candidates into clinical development. Dr. Opgenorth serves as a Director on Boards for KromaTiD, MonImmune, Vidasym, and Cetya. Along with being founder and CSO of VetDC, he was CEO of Vidasym, Inc., a discovery company developing drugs for treatment of human chronic kidney disease. He holds a BA in Biology from Calvin College, and MS and PhD degrees in Physiology from University of Illinois-Urbana.