Management

Peter S. Lu, M.D.
Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Lu founded Arbor Vita Corporation in May 1998, to apply discoveries of the role of PDZ proteins to the development of novel therapeutics and diagnostics. Previously, he directed the Stanford Psoriasis Treatment Center and was a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Stanford University. He completed his residency in Dermatology at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Lu received his B.S. in Biology from the California Institute of Technology, his M.S. in Microbiology/Immunology from the University of Washington and his M.D. from the University of Washington Medical School. He is an inventor on numerous patents and patent applications and author of a number of peer-reviewed publications.

Linda McAllister, M.D., Ph.D.
Vice President of Diagnostics

Dr. McAllister joined Arbor Vita in late 2007 from Roche Diagnostics, where as Director of Technology Management she managed a portfolio of early-stage technology opportunities.  Previously, she was Director of Clinical Genetics at Celera Diagnostics and Program Manager of Genotyping at Affymetrix.  In addition to her business career, she simultaneously served as Adjunct Clinical Professor in the Department of Medicine at UCSF from 1992 to 2005. She received her B.S. in Biology and Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology and both a Ph.D. in Neurosciences and an M.D. from Stanford University Medical School.  She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at UCSF and was a Bugher Cardiovascular Research Fellow at Stanford under the direction of Drs. Victor Dzau, Patrick O. Brown and David Botstein.  She is the author of numerous scientific publications and holds six patents

Johannes G. Schweizer, Ph.D.
Project Director

Dr. Schweizer joined Arbor Vita in 1999 as a scientist and currently manages the HPV program. Dr. Schweizer's background is in molecular biology with a focus on human genetics. He received his MS in Biology from the University of Constance, Germany, and he did his Ph.D. thesis work at the Pasteur Institute, Paris. Dr. Schweizer was a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, prior to joining Arbor Vita.