Mary Pat Moyer, Ph.D
INCELL Corporation LLC - Founder, President, CEO & CSO
TEKSA Innovations Corp. - Founder, CEO and President
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio - Adjunct Professor

Dr. Mary Pat Moyer is a recognized biomedical scientist, entrepreneur and
technology business leader. She founded the innovative life sciences company, INCELL Corporation (1993), after over 20 years as an academic scientist, as Director of the Center for Human Cell Biotechnology, Division Head of Surgical Research, and Professor of Surgery, Microbiology, Cellular and Structural Biology, Pediatrics, and Molecular Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

She received her Ph.D. in microbiology, emphasis in virology, from the
University of Texas at Austin. As a biology major, she received BS and MS
degrees from Florida Atlantic University. She is an advocate for accelerating development of products from the laboratory to the clinic.

As CEO and Chief Science Officer, she has orchestrated INCELL’s growth in
research and clinical products, pre-clinical testing services and R&D for
new products, with 7 small business research grants awarded through NIH since 1997, and from the company’s self-generated corporate capital from sales of products and services. This includes two major pioneering products: (1) An oral vaccine against smallpox being developed and tested in collaboration with the USAF, and providing platform technology for influenza and other vaccines; and (2) An adjunct cancer therapy to improve quality of life and treatment outcomes of cancer patients currently being enrolled at Johns Hopkins Medical Center in a trial sponsored by the National Cancer Institute.

She is spearheading a Texas and international initiative to accelerate
manufacturing of biomedical products such as vaccines, other therapeutics
and medical devices, through an initiative called BIO-MAP, the
Bio-Manufacturing Alliance Partners. An authority in microbiology, cancer,
biodefense, and stem cells, Dr. Moyer has published over 200 scientific papers and abstracts, co-authored a textbook “Colon Cancer Cells”, and served as a Consultant to national and international government agencies (e.g., WHO, NIH, NASA, DoD), universities and industry. She gives extensive professional and community service, and has a role on many advisory boards and committees.

Dr. Moyer has received many awards, including: 1999 Ernst & Young
Entrepreneur of the Year Award in “Life Sciences-Emerging Companies”,
1999 inductee into the national Entrepreneurs Hall of Fame; the 1999
Entrepreneurial Spirit Award from National Association of Women Business
Owners, the SA Women’s Chamber of Commerce 1999 Entrepreneurial Woman of the Year Award, the ITEC 2000 Information Technology Achievement Award, and the Women’s Leadership Award 2000 from the San Antonio Business Journal.

In 2001, she was selected as a Fellow of the internationally recognized IC2
Institute in Austin. In 2002 she received the “Breaking the Glass Ceiling
Award” from the American Association of University Women, and the Governor’s Recognition Award for Texas Women in Leadership. Regional recognition in 2003 included “Faces of the Medical Community”, “Innovative Small Business Leader”, and UTSA Management of Technology awards. She was 1 of only 6 national executives selected to present INCELL’s corporate development, business model, and scientific work at the national NIH Small Business Innovative Research meetings in 2003 and 2004, and represented Texas at the 2003 national Research!America Stem Cells conference panel and debate in Austin, and at the 2005 Stem Cells Panel -Training Session of the Texas Legislature. In 2004 she received the West SA Chamber of Commerce Doctoral Achievement Award, was selected by Governor Perry to serve on the Texas Workforce
Investment Council (2004-2007) and received the Athena Award for Women in Leadership. She was appointed in 2004 to Co-Chair for Biotechnology for the Texas State Science and Technology Initiative. She is a nominee for the 2005 national Trailblazer Award, and is currently serving as a founding board member of the San Antonio Healthcare and Biosciences Development Corporation.

Dr. Moyer is Founder and President of the SanAntonio Austin Life Sciences
Association (SALSA; www.bio-salsa.org) where she has chaired the Biodefense Summit for the past 4 years, works passionately as a technology community activist for Texas and San Antonio, and serves on the boards of many for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. She is also CEO and President of TEKSA Innovations Corp. (1999; www.teksa.net), an INCELL-managed consortium that is mentoring small businesses in life science, information technology and engineering as a means to implement the formation and growth of technology companies and to promote regional, national, and international economic development. She has been profiled in many publications and news stories.

As examples, in 2005 she was highlighted in Unconventional Business Wisdom articles in San Antonio’s SA Woman magazine and on Vaccine and Gene Therapy Strategies in Genetic Engineering News and numerous biotechnology articles in the San Antonio Express-News and San Antonio Business Journal. She is often selected to speak at regional, national, and international conferences.

She is married to her business and life partner Jim Janowiak, a CPA who
manages INCELL and TEKSA finances and administration. She has raised
a daughter, Amy (a realtor and entrepreneur) and son Nick (college student) and helped raise Jessica Janowiak and 4 other stepdaughters (34 years of teenagers!).

Her motto and quotes: “Be honest—hire wonderful people—keep a spiritual
center and sense of humor—and never, never give up!”