Regent Laporte

Regent Laporte, DVM, MSc, PhD

Dr. Laporte is Director of the Specialized Certificate in Translational Science at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute. He is also Senior Director of Translational Pharmacology at Peptide Logic, a biotechnology company combining synthetic peptides and recombinant antibodies advantages to create innovative semi-synthetic biologics for pain and other pathologic conditions, and he is Founder and Principal Consultant at Laporte & Associates, a biotechnology and pharmaceutical R&D consulting company. Previously, he was Director of Exploratory Pharmacology at Ferring Pharmaceuticals where he led teams that conducted or contributed to peptide therapeutics drug discovery programs resulting in eight candidate drugs now in clinical development and spanning several therapeutic areas.