Anthony Cerami

Anthony Cerami is an American entrepreneur and award-winning research scientist.

Biography
Anthony Cerami is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) and the Institute of Medicine. He is the founder and Chairman of the Board of Warren Pharmaceuticals, and the founder and chairman of the Board and CEO of Araim Pharmaceuticals. He received a Ph.D. in 1967 from Rockefeller University, New York, completed postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts, and at the Jackson Laboratory, Maine, and served for 20 years as Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Medical Biochemistry, and Dean of Graduate and Postgraduate Studies at Rockefeller. In 1991, Dr. Cerami left Rockefeller University to found (with Jeffry Picower) the Picower Institute for Medical Research, which was later acquired by the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research. In 1996, Dr. Cerami and his daughter Carla Cerami Hand established the Kenneth S. Warren Institute, a not-for-profit biomedical research organization.

Research
Anthony Cerami has led research programs into genetic, metabolic and infectious diseases, with the goal of translating scientific discovery into clinically important products. Among the successes of his approach are: glycated hemoglobin to monitor diabetic control, anti-tumour necrosis factor-alpha therapies to treat inflammatory diseases such as Crohn's disease and rheumatoid arthritis, and, recently, tissue protective cytokines to safely treat devastating diseases and injuries. He is the recipient the Luft Award in Diabetes and the Frederick Banting Medal for Scientific Achievement, awarded by the American Diabetes Association in recognition of his lifelong work on diabetes.