Atherion Bioresearch
Leadership Team
Prior to Atherion, Dr. Rosol served as
Chief Medical Officer and later
principal executive officer of Navidea Biopharmaceuticals, a publicly traded pharmaceutical company. Before this,
he was Associate Director in the
Clinical and Translational Imaging
Group at Novartis and Head of its Translational Imaging Group.
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He was also Sr. Director of Business Development at Elucid Bioimaging, Inc.
and CSO of MediLumine, Inc.​
Dr. Rosol holds a PhD from the Boston University School of Medicine and was
a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard
Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital. He held several
faculty appointments at large research universities, including the Mayo Clinic
and the University of Southern
California Keck School of Medicine.
Michael Rosol, PhD
CEO
Before joining Atherion, Ms. Eves
served as Navidea Biopharmaceuticals’ Vice President, Finance and
Administration from November 2020 to March 2023. She served Navidea in
several roles of increasing
responsibility beginning in March
1992, including Accounting Clerk,
Staff Accountant, Senior Accountant, Controller and Director, Finance and Administration. In addition to directing
the financial operations of the
Company, she was responsible for
internal and external financial reporting including all SEC filings, maintaining a system of internal controls, and
managing banking and vendor relationships.
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Ms. Eves earned a BS/BA in Accounting from The Ohio State University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Erika Eves, CPA
CFO
Prior to joining Atherion, Mr. Smith was
at Navidea Biopharmaceuticals from
2012 to 2023, holding various roles
up to and including VP of Operations.
He also held FP&A leadership roles at Cardinal Health, where he completed several M&A deals in expansion of the company’s PET manufacturing and radiopharmacy footprint.
His professional career began in Operations Management at Bunge Ltd
and General Mills Inc.
Mr. Smith earned a Chemical
Engineering degree and Economics
minor from The Ohio State University,
and an MBA with Financial
Management emphasis from Ashland University.
Jeffrey G. Smith, MBA
CBO
Prior to joining Atherion, Ms. Hershey
was at Navidea Biopharmaceuticals
from 2016 to 2023, in roles of
increasing responsibility, culminating
in the position of Associate Director of Clinical Research and Operations. She
has worked on trials of various phases
and in a variety of disease indications, including cancers, autoimmune
disease, neurodegenerative disease,
and diseases of fibrosis.
Ms. Hershey earned a BS in Neuroscience/Molecular Genetics and Master of Science in Pharmacology – Clinical Pharmacology and Clinical
Trial Design from The Ohio State
University.
Rachael Hershey, MS
Senior Director of Clinical Operations