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Stephen Zweig, his wife Gail, and his 12-year-old daughter Kerry, are residents of Los Gatos, California, where Stephen is founder and CEO of Molecular Pathways, Inc., a biotech start-up.
Stephen was also the 1991 Founder, CEO and most recently Chairman of Avocet Medical, Inc., San Jose, California. Avocet developed and marketed the innovative "AvoSure" hand-held meter for monitoring oral anticoagulants (warfarin and Coumadin). The company received grants from the National Institutes of Health, approval from the FDA and Medicare, and received several prestigious awards, including the best new research award from the American Association for Medical Instrumentation. Avocet has recently been sold to Beckman-Coulter, who will continue the AvoSure system under the Beckman-Coulter brand name.
From 1985 to 1991, Stephen was director of R&D at LifeScan Inc., a Johnson and Johnson company. Prior to that, he was a senior research scientist at Miles Laboratories from 1984-1985. Stephen earned his BA with a double major in Physics and Biology in the College of Creative Studies at UCSB in 1974, and earned his Ph.D. in Biophysics at UCSD in 1980. Stephen was a postdoctoral fellow for the Arthritis Foundation at the National Institutes of Health from 1980-1982, and an assistant professor in the Pharmacology Department at Baylor College of Medicine from 1982-1984.
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