Michael T. Flavin is CEO of Shamrock Structures, a drug discovery services company founded in 2003 to provide pharmaceutical researchers with access to technologies and expertise to accelerate their lead compound discovery programs. Shamrock’s combination of protein target structure determination using x-ray crystallography, medicinal chemistry to synthesize new compounds that bind to the protein target and biological screening to determine the resulting biological effect of the new compounds is a powerful approach to creating more potent and selective new drugs. He is also Chairman & CEO of Advanced Life Sciences (ADLS.OB), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of new drugs to fight infection, inflammation and cancer. Founded in 1999, Advanced Life Sciences completed a $35M IPO in 2005 and several follow-on financings to advance drugs through clinical trials. including RestanzaTM (cethromycin), a novel once-a-day oral antibiotic in NDA-stage development for thetreatment of respiratory tract infections including pneumonia. In 1987, Dr. Flavin founded MediChem Life Sciences (NASDAQ: MCLS).He established MediChem as a premier drug discovery and development company for the pharmaceutical industry. In 2000, MediChem completed a $54M IPO. Dr. Flavin has 45 publications in scientific journals and 20 U.S. patents in the fields of organic chemistry, medicinal chemistry and biochemistry. He has been awarded several grants from the National Institutes of Health to further his research in anti-infective and anticancer drug discovery. Dr. Flavin is a frequent lecturer on topics related to scientific entrepreneurship at universities such as Notre Dame and the University of Chicago. Dr. Flavin received his B.S. degree in chemistry from Notre Dame and his Ph.D. degree in medicinal chemistry from University of Illinois at Chicago. After completing his postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard, he was a Senior Research Scientist at Baxter prior to founding MediChem.