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Elaine Phillips, Ph.D. is one of our co-founders and has served as President and CEO and a member of our board of directors since March 2008. Phillips has over 17 years of experience in pharmaceuticals and drug delivery for both commercialized products and products in development. Prior to joining Meritage, Phillips was Senior Vice President of Technical Operations at Verus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. where she was responsible for the technical aspects of products in Verus? portfolio including the commercialization of the Twinject® epinephrine auto-injector. Prior to joining Verus, Phillips was a member of ProPharmaCon, LLC providing drug development consulting and contract services to clients for products across the development cycle. She was employed at Dura Pharmaceuticals (then Elan) from 1997 to 2001 where she focused on the delivery of proteins and peptides to the lung. Prior to that, Phillips was in the Department of Pharmaceutics at Hoffmann-La Roche for five years where she had various functional responsibilities ranging from pre-formulation and aerosol formulation development, solid state characterization and package development. She has publications and patent applications in the fields of crystal growth, device design, drug delivery, controlled-release and pharmaceutical applications of super critical fluids. Phillips has a Ph.D. in pharmaceutics from Virginia Commonwealth University, a B.Sc. in chemical engineering from the University of Kentucky and has performed post-doctoral studies in pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of Kansas.