Joseph S. Duffey
President and CEO, Director
Joseph Duffey is the Founder and CEO of Gel Med Sciences. Prior to starting Gel Med, Mr. Duffey was the founding CEO of Renaissance Medical Management Company, a start-up physician provider organization established for the purpose of securing and managing Global Risk Health Care Contracts for 440 member physicians in the Philadelphia market. His other experiences stem from his years as a principle of Compass Management Partners (Compass), an operations management consulting firm. The focus of Compass was to represent the interests of shareholders by assisting the entrepreneurs of early stage, venture-backed companies. Compass assignments included assisting several early stage life science companies and management positions with both InVivo and DRG, Inc, both contract research organizations (CRO’s) in the business of managing Phase II and Phase III clinical trials. Mr. Duffey received his undergraduate degree in Business Administration from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and his MBA degree from the Harvard Business School.

Mark Swanson, Ph.D.
Executive Vice President
Head of Research and Stretegic Development
Dr. Mark Swanson is an accomplished scientist with fifteen years of industrial science experience who has managed major CRO programs for large pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Dr. Swanson joins Gel Med from DNX Transgenic Sciences where he served as the Vice President of Transgenic Sciences. At DNX, he was responsible for directing the development of genetic related products and services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry and was responsible for the overall management of DNX Transgenic Science’s contract research business. Prior to DNX, Dr. Swanson was a senior scientist at Sandoz Pharmaceutical Corporation (Novartis) and was involved in preclinical drug development. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from the University of Connecticut Health Center and postdoctoral training at Columbia University/Howard Hughes Medical Institute (1983-1987).