John Pace is a Chief Scientist at Hodad Technologies. He possess expertise in drug discovery, biotechnology, infectious diseases, pharmaceutical industry, clinical development and 37 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "It is my greatest pleasure to recommend Dr. John Pace, for whom I have worked for at Protez Pharmaceuticals. John directed the discovery and development activities of the Biology Department, led and performed laboratory studies, assembled the pre-IND microbiology data for razupenem (PZ-601), managed external clinical microbiology efforts including in-licensing/screening activities for antibacterial, and facilitated interactions with the FDA. John's critical insight and enthusiasm for research, coupled with excellent management skills helped greatly in the discovery and development of razupenem, an initiative for new a beta-lactamase inhibitor in my group that is responsible for compound screening, SAR, efficacy, selectivity, resistance, and mechanism of action studies. I found John to be a highly intelligent research leader who did a wonderful job of inspiring his group to generate high quality biological data to the analysis and evaluation of drug candidates. I have been fortunate to have worked with John, who is the kind of person most scientists can only dream about working with. John is a top expert in the pharmaceutical industry and anti-infective area, and author of numerous publications and patents. He can successfully lead numerous programs at the same time. John is also open minded, a man of culture and fine judgment, an outstanding and trustful manager, mentor, and friend. His multifaceted skills at scientific and business program design and execution, paired with his ability to effectively coalescence with a diverse group of people, and communication across all functional levels should serve him very well in any management position in pharmaceutical or biotechnology." and "John is an outstanding and dedicated scientist, great person and manager to work with."