Richard S. Stack , MD

Managing Dir.
SyneCor, LLC
Portola Valley

Richard S. Stack is Managing General Partner of SyneCor, LLC, a business generator of new Life Sciences companies based in the Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and Menlo Park, California. SyneCor has significant academic, scientific, physician, venture capital, corporate, and investment banking partnerships and is focusing its efforts on the identification and development of proprietary, transformational technologies with extraordinary market potential in the cardiovascular disease field. Dr. Stack is currently the Executive Director of ACRI (the Atlanta Cardiovascular Research Institute) and is a Professor of Medicine in Cardiology on leave of absence from Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. Dr. Stack is also an inventor of several devices that are designed to improve and further the technology of angioplasty. Dr. Stack holds twelve current worldwide patents and has an additional eight patents pending on a variety of vascular and therapeutic devices. Currently, Dr. Stack's research team is developing a drug delivery stent device, invented by Dr. Stack, which holds great promise for overcoming many of the limitations of current stents. A major thrust of Dr. Stack's current basic and clinical research effort includes new devices for the treatment of peripheral vascular disease, particularly cerebrovascular disease.