Brian Meltzer

Dr. Brian A. Meltzer joined Purdue in 2012 as Executive Medical Director, R&D Innovation, responsible for coordinating the identification, evaluation, and recommendation of new therapeutic modalities, drug delivery, formulation platforms, and other potential opportunities deemed consistent with the company’s current and future strategic goals.  He was named Executive Director, Licensing & Business Development in January 2014. 

Prior to joining Purdue, Dr. Meltzer spent seven years at Johnson & Johnson, most recently as Commercial Trial Leader at Janssen Healthcare Innovation.  Before that, he worked within Johnson & Johnson’s venture capital division and built RedScript Ventures, its first venture-backed business incubator.  Over a five-year period, this team started nine innovative businesses. Earlier in his career, he was a healthcare analyst with Candlewood Capital Management in Princeton, NJ and spent five years at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, where he created and successfully managed an emergency department dedicated to the treatment of oncology patients – the first of its kind in the United States.