KTEC Pipeline: PIPELINE Mentors

Jim Mitchell received his PhD in Biochemistry from Iowa State University in 1979. During his 28-year industrial career, he has held various R&D and operations positions in six different companies, including his current position as Vice President, Pharmaceutical R&D at Hospira, Inc. Mitchell holds several patents in the areas of drug delivery and protein chemistry and has been directly involved with the successful development and launch of over 50 proprietary and generic pharmaceutical products. He has and continues to serve on several advisory boards and has worked at the state level to foster the funding of innovative research across a broad range of technology-based disciplines.

His multi-company R&D and management experience, ranging from drug discovery through commercialization, provides a unique prospective related to the balance between innovation, resource utilization and R&D cycle times in achieving sustained earnings growth.