Allen B. Reitz, Ph.D.

Allen B. Reitz, Ph.D., is chief executive officer of Fox Chase Chemical Diversity Center, Inc. FCCDC conducts early-stage medicinal chemistry and drug discovery activities in direct support of the objectives of the laboratory of Ron Harty at the University of Pennsylvania, and has held a Phase I STTR in the area of virus assembly and budding with Harty as the Principal Investigator. Reitz received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, San Diego and an Executive Master's from the University of Pennsylvania (Penn Engineering and the Wharton School). Reitz was at Johnson & Johnson in Spring House, Pennsylvania for nearly 26 years before founding FCCDC in 2008.