Aprile L. Pilon, Ph.D., Founder, President & CEO
Dr. Pilon is a multi-functional executive with 25 years of broad-based
entrepreneurial experience in the biopharmaceutical industry, including project
management, fundraising, team building, corporate governance, licensing and IP
strategy, regulatory submissions, directing R&D, clinical trial management, and
business development. She is also an accomplished scientist, an inventor on
over 30 issued patents and several pending patents, and principal investigator
on several USG grants. Dr. Pilon is Trove's founder and also a member of the
Company's board of directors.
Dr. Pilon holds a B.A. in Physics from Wheaton College and a Ph.D. in Molecular
and Cell Biology from the Pennsylvania State University. She trained as a
post-doctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health before joining the
biotech industry in 1992.