John leads Valaria Technical Consultants, LLC who have helped over a dozen companies with funding, partnering, and licensure of scientific technology and assets. His team is highly experienced in pharmaceutical and vaccine product development which has focused on infectious diseases, inflammation and cancer. John has worked as a scientific investigator at DuPont-Merck, Wyeth-Lederle and Baxter Biosciences. He served as a Scientific Review Officer and Program Officer for product development at NIAID/NIH and as a Senior Technical Advisor to the DoD at JPEO CBRN Medical. As a result, John has extensive experience in product development and management in academic, government and industry settings.