Matthew D. Linnik

Matthew D.
Linnik joined La Jolla Pharmaceutical Co. in 1998 as Director of Research and Development and was appointed Vice President of Research in February 1999, Executive Vice President of Research in June 1999, Chief Scientific Officer and Executive Vice President of Research in 2002 and Assistant Secretary in 1999.
Previously, he was Senior Pharmacologist, Scientist, Research Scientist and Project Leader of Hoechst Marion Roussel from 1989 to 1998, Adjunct Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine from 1996 to 1998 and Postdoctoral Fellow and Instructor in the Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard Medical School from 1986 to 1988.
Dr. Linnik received a BA degree in Physiology from Southern Illinois University and a PhD in Physiology and Pharmacology from the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine.