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Mike McGarry, Ph.D.

Vice President, Preclinical Studies

Dr. Mike McGarry is a preclinical research scientist with over 35 years of experience generating high quality animal-based data. Dr. McGarry was at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute as an investigator and Director of the Department of Laboratory Animal Resources for 30 years. In this former capacity he worked primarily in experimental hematology and immunology with basic scientists and clinical colleagues, chaired the Institute’s Animal Care and Use Committee and served on the scientific review committee of the Institute’s human studies review board.

Dr. McGarry served as an IACUC member at both the Mayo Foundation and Arizona State University. While serving on the IACUC he helped numerous colleagues write and execute research protocols in a variety of species for experimental therapeutics, toxicology, pharmacokinetics, photodynamic therapy, immuno- and radiation adjunct therapies, gene therapies, adoptive cell transfers and other leading edge technologies. He has himself worked with SCID-hu and nude immune deficient animals, many genetically altered (transgenic and knockout) and mutant mice in most common strains of mice. His experience extends to most other larger animal models routinely used in preclinical research.

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