Rick Hawkins:
CLASS OF 1968
Richmond High SchoolClass of 1968
Richmond, IN
Liberty Union High SchoolClass of 1968
Baltimore, OH
Rick's Story
Rick is from Baltimore, Ohio. Rick’s schools include Liberty union High School. Rick works(ed) at Id2-innovations In Drug Development.
Rick’s interests include traveling the world, drug Developement and family.
More about RICK HAWKINS
Chairman and CEO
Id2- Innovations in Drug Development
In 1983 Mr. Hawkins founded Pharmaco. As Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, he
guided the growth of that organization to over 700 employees. Pharmaco offered a full range of
clinical drug development services to the pharmaceutical industry, including Phase I-IV clinical
trials and analytical chemistry services. The company merged with Applied Bioscience
International. Mr. Hawkins managed their 2000 employee international Research & Development
operations. More recently Pharmaco merged with PPD of Wilmington, NC to form PPD Pharmaco,
one of the largest clinical contract research organizations in the world.
After selling Pharmaco, Mr. Hawkins founded id2, a pharmaceutical and biotechnology research
management company. Through his position as Chairman and CEO at id2, he has served as an
advisor and mentor in the start-up of numerous companies, including Sensus Drug Development
Corporation. Sensus, a biotechnology company, developed Growth Hormone Antagonists for use
in acromegaly, the complications of diabetes, and regulation of growth hormone in the treatment
of specific types of tumors. Mr. Hawkins co-founded Sensus and served as the Chairman.
Sensus was sold to Pfizer.
In addition to Sensus, Mr. Hawkins was co-founder and Director of Covance Biotechnology
Services, Inc., a full service contract manufacturer of recombinant proteins located in Research
Triangle Park, NC. Covance was sold to Akzo Nobel, Inc in early 2001.
Mr. Hawkins served as Chairman of the Board for LoopOne, Inc., a shipping and logistics
software company. LoopOne was purchased by Neopost of Paris, France in May 2001. He
served on the Board of Directors of Synarc, Inc. a San Francisco based bio...Expand for more
-imaging and
biomarker company.
He currently serves as a Board of Director for SciClone Pharmaceuticals Inc., a NASDAQ listed company (SCLN), is a biopharmaceutical company whose lead product Zadaxin is approved and marketed in several countries, primarily China. In addition he serves as a Board of Director for Cytori Therapeutics, Inc.; a global leader in stem cell research and the use of adipose derived stem and regenerative cells.
Mr. Hawkins co-founded and acted as CEO, President and Chairman of LabNow, a diagnostic device company established to improve the quality of patient care and lower overall treatment costs through deployment of rapid, point-of-care, physician office-based diagnostic testing systems. The
company, located in Austin, Texas, has licensed novel lab-on-a-chip sensor technology from The
University of Texas (UT) that performs complex fluid analysis more quickly, more accurately and
at lower cost than current methods. The micro fluidics sensor technology has broad medical,
homeland security, environmental chemistry and process engineering application potential.
Mr. Hawkins served on the Presidential Advisory Committee for the Center for Nano and
Molecular Science and Technology at the University of Texas in Austin and was inducted into the
Hall of Honor for the College of Natural Sciences at the University of Texas. In 2006 he received
Ohio University’s Distinguished Business Achievement Award, spoke at the WCIT2006 and was
named one the top 10 Life Sciences CEO’s in Texas by the Texas Healthcare & Bioscience
Institute. He is a member of the National Ernest and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Hall of
Fame and received the Ernest and Young 1991 Service Industry Award Winner Austin Region.
Mr. Hawkins was the keynote speaker at BioVenture Showcase 2008.
Mr. Hawkins served as the Chairman on The Federal Issues Committee for The Greater Texas Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Hawkins is a cum laude graduate of Ohio University and resides in Austin, Texas.".
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