Chris Reading received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from UC Berkeley, performed post-doctoral studies in cancer biology at UC Irvine, and joined MD Anderson Cancer Center and the University of Texas, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in Houston for 13 years, where he became Associate Professor of Medicine in the Department of Developmental Therapeutics with a joint appointment in the Department of Tumor Biology. He then accepted a position at Systemix / Novartis in Palo Alto, where he became Vice President of Product and Process Development. From there, he moved to San Diego where he has spent over 15 years on the NE3107 platform development at Harbor Therapeutics. He has over 35 years of research and drug development experience, and over 130 peer-reviewed scientific publication, and has authored numerous patents in the areas of monoclonal antibodies, cell separation technologies, stem cell transplantation, and sterol drug development.