William M. Pardridge, M.D. is Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of California. Dr. Pardridge has worked on the blood-brain barrier (BBB) since 1970 and is the author of over 500 publications, and inventor of over 50 issued patents, in the BBB field. He is the inventor of the BBB molecular Trojan horse technology, which has enabled the re-engineering of multiple classes of biologic drugs (lysosomal enzymes, therapeutic antibodies, neurotrophins, or decoy receptors) as BBB-penetrating recombinant IgG fusion proteins for the treatment of brain disorders. Dr. Pardridge also invented the Trojan horse liposome technology for non-invasive, non-viral gene therapy of the brain, and the field of BBB genomics. Dr. Pardridge is the Founder of Armagen, Inc., and The Lipogene Company, Inc.