Dr.John J. Toole

Overview

John J. Toole, age 53, is our Senior Vice President, Clinical Research. Dr. Toole joined us in 1990 as Director of Molecular and Cellular Biology. He was promoted to Vice President, Biology in 1996, and became Vice President, Clinical Research in 1998. Dr. Toole was promoted to his current position of Senior Vice President, Clinical Research in August 2003. Dr. Toole was a recipient of an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship and performed his postdoctoral work in molecular biology at the Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Toole was one of the founding scientists of Genetics Institute, Inc., where he led the project team that first cloned the human coagulation factor VIII gene. He received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the State University of New York at Buffalo and his M.D. from the Stanford University School of Medicine.