Management Team

Mr. van der Baan, 51, has more than 20 years of experience in the biotechnology industry, with a key focus on oncology and diagnostics. Most recently, he was the Chief Clinical and Business Development Officer of Agendia, Inc. in Irvine, California and Amsterdam, Netherlands. In that role, Mr. van der Baan was instrumental in the initiation and execution of numerous clinical trials that led to full commercialization and adoption of precision molecular oncology diagnostics. He initiated the launch of Agendia’s business operations in the United States and has broad knowhow in clinical development, both in the United States and in Europe.

Mr. Forman has led our business development as a consultant since 2013 and served as Chief Administrative Officer beginning in 2020. Effective as of November 6, 2022, Mr. Forman was appointed as our Chief Operating Officer. In his capacity as a consultant, and in his role as Chief Operating Officer, his responsibilities include overseeing all internal operations, the development of science/business collaborations, and the management of our growing intellectual property portfolio. Prior to his involvement with our company, he served as Counsel and Senior Project Manager at Shore Group Associates managing in-house legal, tax, and regulatory affairs and supervising client relations for financial software and mobile application development teams.

As an attorney, Mr. Forman has represented and advised both technology and biotechnology companies, entrepreneurs, non-profits, and start-ups with a focus on intellectual property, licensing, corporate structure and transactions. Mr. Forman earned a B.A. degree Cum Laude from Loyola Marymount University and a J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. He has an active law license and is a member of the New York State Bar Association.

Dr. Schellens has more than 25 years of clinical experience as a medical oncologist, pharmacologist and clinical pharmacologist, including more than two decades developing and bringing new drugs to market. Co-author of more than 900 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals, Dr. Schellens has held leadership positions at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam and the Dr. Daniel den Hoed Clinic-Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He was professor of clinical pharmacology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, where he earned his M.D. degree, and he served as a board member and Chief Medical Officer of Byondis B.V. from January 2019 through September 2023. He also earned a Ph.D. degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Leiden University in Leiden, Netherlands. 

Dr. Schellens served for 17 years as a board member of the Dutch Medicines Evaluation Board and for 12 years as a member and chairperson of the Scientific Advisory Board Oncology of the EMA. From 2016 to the present, he has served as a part-time Chief Medical Officer of Modra Pharmaceuticals B.V., an Amsterdam-based company that successfully completed a Phase 2b clinical study of ModraDoc006/r, a boosted oral taxane therapeutic, in contrast to the standard-of-care IV chemotherapy docetaxel, in patients with prostate cancer.

Mr. Weingarten is an experienced business consultant and advisor with a consulting practice focusing on accounting and SEC compliance issues. Since 1979, Mr. Weingarten has provided such financial consulting and advisory services, has acted as chief financial officer, and has served on the boards of directors of numerous public companies in various stages of development, operation or reorganization. Mr. Weingarten has experience in a variety of industries, including the pharmaceutical industry.

Mr. Weingarten has been a Director of Guardion Health Sciences, Inc. since June 2015 and Chairman of the board of directors since July 2020. Previously, Mr. Weingarten served as Lead Director on Guardion’s board of directors from January 2017 to March 2020. From July 2017 to June 2018, Mr. Weingarten was the Chief Financial Officer of Alltemp, Inc. From April 2013 to February 2017, Mr. Weingarten served on the board of directors of RespireRx Pharmaceuticals Inc. and also served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Weingarten received a B.A. in Accounting from the University of Washington in 1974, a M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Southern California in 1975, and is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive) in the State of California.