Cambridge Who's Who Names Teresa M. Leezer Executive of the Year in Biotechnology
Teresa's expertise includes over ten categories of medicine: osteoporosis, oncology, virology, anti-infectives, rheumatology, anesthesiology, dermatology, and pain management. She has directed significant co-marketing initiatives including the co-promotion of Zantac with Roche.


/Biotechnology News Articles/ - Louisville, KY, June 18, 2008, Teresa M. Leezer, Vice President of MetaCyte Business Lab LLC, has been named Cambridge Who's Who Executive of the Year in Biotechnology. While inclusion in Cambridge Who's Who Registry is an honor, only two male and two female members in each discipline are named the Cambridge Who's Who Executive of the Year. The Cambridge Who's Who selection committee chooses these special honorees based on their accomplishments, academic achievements, leadership and service.

Teresa Leezer has more than 15 years of executive management experience from Hoffman-LaRoche, Merck Labs and Bristol Myers Squibb respectively. Her experience includes the management of business units, portfolios and products in every phase of the life cycle - from pre-clinical, to launch, growth and maturity. Her sales, marketing and management expertise spans the institutional, physician and over the counter markets. Estimated launch product sales exceed $6 billion including worldwide blockbusters such as Fosamax, Zantac, Reyataz, Sustiva, Aleve and Rocephin. MetaCyte Business, Lab, LLC is a life and health science business incubator that creates and launches new companies from promising health science technologies. Ms. Leezer notes that the most rewarding aspect of her career is helping to make a difference in the world with novel ideas and technology.

Teresa's expertise includes over ten categories of medicine: osteoporosis, oncology, virology, anti-infectives, rheumatology, anesthesiology, dermatology, and pain management. She has directed significant co-marketing initiatives including the co-promotion of Zantac with Roche and Glaxo and the co-promotion of Fosamax with Merck and Wyeth-Ayerst. Teresa has also managed contract sales organizations for the promotion of products such as Flonase and Aleve.

Teresa received a Bachelor of Applied Science and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Louisville. She attended City University, London, England. Teresa has completed Executive Management Programs at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business.

Teresa currently serves on the Board of Directors for RhinoCyte, Inc., the LouHie Board of Directors, the Ronald McDonald House Board of Directors and the St. Francis of Assisi School Board.

An authority in her field, Ms. Leezer is available to speak with the media and can be contacted at (502) 569-1020, ext. 311.

For more information on MetaCyte Business Lab, LLC, visit http://www.metacyte.biz.

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