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Michael Chansler is the Director of Business Development for the IIT Research Institute (IITRI). IITRI has provided non-clinical research and development services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and chemical industries, and to the U.S. Government, for more than forty years. IITRI offers a highly experienced, well-integrated team of toxicologists, chemists, clinical scientists, veterinary pathologists, molecular biologists, microbiologists, Quality Assurance auditors, and administrators to support programs in drug discovery and non-clinical development.
Prior to joining IITRI, Chansler co-founded and served as the Vice President of Business Development and Sales for Accium Biosciences, Inc., the first commercial provider of accelerator mass spectrometry bioanalytical services in North America. Accium offers pharmaceutical researchers specialty services that significantly reduce the time, cost and risk of advancing novel drugs from the laboratory to the clinic.