Managing Director - Discovery, Nonclinical, & Animal Health Consulting
Latham BioPharm Group, Cambridge, MA
Dr. Casillas is a business strategic professional and biochemical toxicologist with over 28 years’ nonclinical development experience identifying workable solutions for novel products in the Medical Countermeasures (MCM) and Companion Animal Health markets. This includes 20 years managing CRO chem/bio containment and preclinical/vivarium facilities, along with over 350 staff. He provides a proven customer focus and value creation for Global clients, with demonstrated success in establishing strategic partnerships and cross-functional teams to develop new revenue streams and drive growth. Dr. Casillas formerly served as VP, Strategic Global Health Security (MRIGlobal); VP, CBRN Business Integration (Battelle); and VP, Biomedical S&T (Battelle), where he established strategic and tactical plans to facilitate awards of over $900M in multi-year contracts with government, industry, and academia. He has worked with government funded small/large Pharma, virtual Biotech, and Academia, the top small/large Global Animal Health companies, the DoD (i.e., DTRA, JPEO, DARPA), DHHS (i.e., BARDA, NIH, FDA, CDC), and DoE to develop national defense, public/animal health MCMs. He has overseen or consulted on 100’s of nonclinical projects for non-GLP and pivotal IND/NDA-enabling GLP studies (including FDA Animal Rule applications), target animal safety studies, toxicant and/or drug delivery, and formulation/device feasibility. He played a management/program/scientific role for the development and data collection of 13 EUA, BLA, NDA, 510(k) or Military Use Only FDA approved medical CBRN defense products. Dr. Casillas recently retired as a Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve and served as a CBRN medical defense SME for senior leaders. Dr. Casillas is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Rutgers University, and a Fellow of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences. He is an author/co-author of 45 peer-reviewed publications, 6 book chapters, and 127 poster abstracts.
Dr. Casillas received his Ph.D. in Microbial and Biochemical Sciences, and B.S. in Biology (emphasis in Microbiology) from Georgia State University and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry, Center in Molecular Toxicology, at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.