Dr. Shawn J. Green is Senior Scientific Advisor to TripleTree. In advising biomedical and informatic companies, Shawn leverages over a decade of experience as an entrepreneurial scientist and as a senior operating executive of public and private companies. He has held teaching positions at various universities. Presently, Shawn serves on the Board of Directors for the Virginia Biotechnology Industry Organization and the Board of Advisors for the Foundation of Genetic Medicine. He is an advisor to Ernst & Young's Health Science Compliance Group and the School of Management for Biosciences at George Mason University.

Prior to joining TripleTree, Shawn was part of the founder's team of a privately held life science informatics firm that established a diverse network of partners & clients, including Bristol Myers Squibb, IBM Life Sciences, Johnson & Johnson, John Wiley & Son Publishers, Fijitsu, Itochu, and the State of Ohio.

Shawn has also served as Senior Vice President of Discovery Research at EntreMed, Inc., a Nasdaq-traded biotechnology company, which focused on the development of therapeutic strategies to combat cancer and blindness. He was responsible for business development activities and creating a multidisciplinary research program to identify novel therapeutics. Shawn successfully guided drug candidates from discovery to FDA clinical trials. He played an active role in fundraising at EntreMed and was co-founder of a privately-held medical device company focused on inserting biologics, drugs, and genes into targeted cells for the treatment of various diseases.

Shawn has authored over 50 book chapters and scientific publications in such journals as Science and NatureMedicine, and has been awarded a number of patents, including those for the treatment of infectious diseases and cancer. Over the past decade, he has received numerous awards, including the Meritorious Service Medal for work on infectious diseases while serving at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and acknowledgements in biomedical research and life science informatics, including the CIO Award by IDG, BIO-IT Leader by Bio-IT World Magazine, and he was named one of the 40 Next Network Entrepreneurs by Washington Business Forward Magazine. Shawn has served on editorial boards, scientific committees for SBIR-NIH and DOD, and has held academic appointments at McGill, Johns Hopkins, Howard, and Catholic University.

Shawn holds a Ph.D. in Cell Biology & Anatomy from Georgetown University Schools of Medicine & Dentistry and an M.B.A. from Georgetown School of Business in Washington, DC.

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