Ron Wolff

Ron Wolff, Ph.D. was appointed vice president of regulatory affairs and toxicology in 2015 following several years as Pulmokine’s consultant on regulatory affairs. He will assist Pulmokine with regulatory matters and preparation of the company’s Investigation New Drug (IND) application for an inhaled PDGFR inhibitor.

Dr. Wolff is president of RK Wolff Safety Consulting Inc. He is a former executive director of preclinical safety assessment for Novartis; senior fellow in toxicology at Nektar Therapeutics in San Carlos, California; group leader of inhalation toxicology at Eli Lilly; and senior scientist at Lovelace Inhalation Toxicology Research Institute. He has experience in toxicology in a wide range of areas, including respiratory, oncology, endocrine, infectious disease, and biologics with special expertise in inhalation toxicology with applications to pharmaceuticals and environmental and occupational health.

He has also served as chair of the Occupational Exposure Level (OEL) Committee of Eli Lilly, and is a co-author on the Product Quality Research Institute (PQRI) publication on safety qualification thresholds for leachables and extractables. He has published more than 100 articles on topics including inhalation toxicology, pharmaceutical aerosols, leachables and extractables, and oncology. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology (DABT), a former member of the Board of Directors of the International Society of Aerosols in Medicine, and is a past-president of the American Association for Aerosol Research.