Yow-Pin Lim, MD/PhD is a research scientist with background in protein and immunochemistry. After completing his medical school and dissertation thesis in Berlin, Germany, he came for post doc training in the carcinogenesis laboratory at Rhode Island Hospital and joined as Brown University faculty in 1993. His research focuses on natural serine protease inhibitor proteins and their roles in systemic inflammation/sepsis and neuroinflammation (hypoxic-ischemic brain injury/stroke). In 2001 he co-founded a start-up company ProThera Biologics in Providence, RI and he has been serving as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Scientific Officer. He currently holds an academic appointment as adjunct Professor in the Dept. Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University.