Steven J Melnick Ph.D, M.D.

Steven J Melnick, Ph.D., M.D. the Company majority owner serves as Chief of the Department of Pathology and Clinical Laboratories at Miami Children's Hospital since 1997. He joined the Department of Pathology in 1992 following his Residency training at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach. He earned his B.Sc. degree in Physics (1977) and Ph.D. in Chemistry (1982) at McGill University and his Medical Degree at Queen's University (1987), Kingston, Ontario. His research experience with botanical medicine goes back to 1975 where worked with and studied under Dr. Bernard R. Grad at the Allen Memorial Institute at McGill University during his undergraduate and graduate studies. This experience was instrumental in establishing the research laboratory dedicated to ethnobotanical research at Miami Children's Hospital in 1999. The laboratory and accumulated intellectual property were transitioned into a private company; Dharma Biomedical in early 2006. His bibliography contains over 100 peer-reviewed publications and abstracts. He is a frequent invited lecturer in medical industry symposia and is currently the study chair for two pediatric clinical trials in development; one which involves the use of Turmeric as an adjuvant therapy in high-risk childhood cancer patients and the other which involves the use of a whey-protein derivative as an intervention in pediatric cancer patients at high risk for cachexia.