Praxeon Team

Dennis's experience in the pharmaceutical industry spans 20 years at both small and large companies. Before co-founding Praxeon, Dennis served as Vice President of Computational Sciences at Infinity Pharmaceuticals Inc, where he provided the vision and strategy for the Infinity informatics platform while applying his scientific expertise to cancer drug discovery projects.

Dennis came to Infinity from DuPont Pharmaceuticals where he served as Executive Director, Discovery Informatics and Molecular Design. Dennis's responsibilities spanned the areas of Discovery Informatics, including all aspects of the data and information lifecycle for Discovery, Computational Sciences, and New Technologies. He recognized the strategic importance of CombiChem Inc to DuPont Pharmaceuticals and initiated their purchase.

Prior to his successes at DuPont, Dennis was Director, Molecular Systems at Merck Research Laboratories. He did Post Docs at The Australian National University, Cornell University, and Rockefeller University.

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Dennis received a Ph.D in Physical Organic Chemistry and a B.Sc Hons in Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry from Adelaide University, Australia.

Kevin co-founded Praxeon after two years as Principal Engineer at Infinity Pharmaceuticals Inc. There he led the development of Infinity's discovery informatics platform. Kevin arrived at Infinity from i2 Technologies, an enterprise supply chain management and logistics software company, where he was a Lead Developer and Development Manager for i2's Transportation Distribution Management and Common Infrastructure Services groups.

Prior to relocating to Boston in November 2001, he lived in Austin, Texas and was employed by Trilogy Development Group, Inc. There he grew from a C++ development position into Java and web development architecture, becoming Development Manager where he worked closely with software engineers, product managers, technical pre-sellers, and large Trilogy customers in the computer and automotive industries to define and develop Trilogy's enterprise products.

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Kevin holds a Master of Science degree from MIT in a joint Aero/Astro Engineering and Computer Science program. His bachelor's degree is in Aero/Astro Engineering from MIT. More recently he has completed introductory coursework in organic chemistry and molecular cell biology at the Harvard Extension School.

Dr. Sikka is an attending physician in the emergency department at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Illinois. Prior to that, he was an attending in the emergency department at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and a member of the ED executive management team. He also held a faculty appointment as an assistant professor in the department of emergency medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine. He was the lead instructor of a seminar on critical care topics in emergency medicine.

Dr. Sikka's research interests are in the fields of cost-effectiveness analysis and health outcomes research. In particular, his work focuses on the use of medical and pharmacy claims data to determine quality of care, physician efficiency and patient compliance with therapeutic regimens. Dr. Sikka's work has been published in several major journals including The Journal of Managed Care and Annals of Emergency Medicine. His work has also been presented both nationally and internationally. He is the recipient of the BMC Frommer Academic Excellence Award, the New England Research Directors Excellence in Research Award and the BMC Emergency Department Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award.

Dr. Sikka's background spans the intersection of business, media and medicine. During medical school, he served as the medical correspondent for KTTC-NBC in Rochester, MN. Most recently, he was a research consultant for Medco Health Solution in Franklin Lakes, NJ and a product development consultant for Health Benchmarks in Woodland Hills, CA.

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Dr. Sikka received his bachelor of science in economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his medical degree from the Mayo Medical School in Rochester, MN. He completed his internship in internal medicine at St. Vincent's Hospital, NY and his residency in emergency medicine at Boston Medical Center. Dr. Sikka is board certified in emergency medicine.

Bill has been involved in the pharmaceutical/biotech and information technology segments for over 15 years. He is a seasoned senior business professional that brings a wealth of experience from his work in the chemo-informatics, bioinformatics and semantic life science sectors. He has played instrumental roles in the positioning, business development and success of a number of life science software companies.

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Bill graduated cum laude from the John Molson School of Business (Concordia University) in Montreal where he was the recipient of the Ian Roberts Advertising Scholarship.