Edward Patz is a co-founder and CEO of Grid Therapeutics. For over 25 years, Dr. Patz has been a clinical radiologist and led a basic science laboratory at Duke University Medical Center focused on lung cancer biology and early cancer detection.

Dr. Patz is a member of the Fleischner Society, the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, and the Society of Thoracic Radiology. He holds a BS in physics from Duke University, was a researcher in High Energy Physics at Harvard University and received his MD at the University of Maryland. He is currently the James and Alice Chen Professor of Radiology, Professor in Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, and Professor in Pathology at Duke. Dr. Patz previously served on the faculty at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Thomas L. Patz is the Chief Operating Officer of Grid Therapeutics. For over 20 years prior to joining Grid, Mr. Patz served as Executive Vice President, Strategic Initiatives, and General Counsel of MICROS Systems, Inc., a publicly traded software company. During his tenure at MICROS, Mr. Patz was instrumental in architecting over 30 transactions, including the sale of MICROS to Oracle Corporation in 2014 for $5.3 Billion.

Mr. Patz holds an AB degree from Brown University and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Virginia School of Law.

Ryan Dackor received his Ph.D. in Genetics and Molecular Biology from the University of North Carolina. Following graduate school, he completed a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

After his postdoc, Ryan worked at a clinical pharmacology/PK consulting company called Nuventra where he served in a variety of scientific and business operations roles for over 10 years, progressing from a Clinical Pharmacology Associate to Director of Contracts and Proposals. Immediately prior to joining Grid, he spent a year and a half at Certara as a Clinical Scientist where he supported drug development initiatives in support of client projects.