FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PORTLAND, Oregon, March 21, 2022
Health Technology Innovations, Inc. (HTI) is excited to announce that Dr. Doug Kawahara is joining HTI as Senior Advisor for AI/ML in Drug Discovery. Dr. Kawahara brings extensive experience in drug discovery and development to HTI. He is currently President & CEO of Elex Biotech (Portland, OR), a company developing novel drugs for the treatment of arrhythmia and heart failure. Previously, Dr. Kawahara was Executive Vice President, Corporate Development for Oligos Etc. (Wilsonville, OR), an FDA-certified manufacturer of custom GMP oligonucleotides for the molecular diagnostics industry. Prior to that, he was Vice President, Business Development, at Receptor BioLogix (Palo Alto, CA), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of novel biotherapeutics for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases, Senior Director, Business Development, at Anesiva, Inc. (fka Corgentech, South San Francisco, CA), a developer of drugs for treating pain and inflammation, and Director, Corporate Development, at GeneTrol Biotherapeutics (Oakland, CA), a developer of therapeutic proteins for the treatment of cancer, viral infections and autoimmune diseases. Dr. Kawahara was a member of the founding management team and Corporate Director, Planning and Business Development, for Xenogen Corporation (Alameda, CA), developed IVIS® in vivo biophotonic imaging system, and held positions of increasing responsibility at Becton Dickinson and Company (San Jose, CA) including Director, Reagents and Applications Development, for the Cellular Imaging Systems Division, and Manager, Licensing and New Business Development for the Advanced Cellular Biology Division. He was Director, Diabetes Research Laboratory, Children’s Hospital Orange County, and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles. He holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of California, San Diego, an MBA in finance from California State University, Long Beach, and a Ph.D. in microbiology (immunology) from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.