Adenocaine is a cardioprotective cardioplegia from Hibernation Therapeutics
Inventor Information
Inventor Information
Geoffrey P. Dobson MSc, PhD
Inventor of the Adenocaine™ Technology
Dr. Geoffrey P. Dobson is the Founding Director and Chief Scientific Officer of Hibernation Therapeutics. He is the inventor and author of over nine (9) international patents, which have been awarded or are pending in the US, Europe, UK, Australia, Japan, India and other major countries in the global pharma market. Dr. Dobson has over 25 years of research experience in the fields of animal comparative physiology and myocardial bioenergetics, and he currently holds a Professorial Chair at James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia, where he heads the Heart Research Laboratory in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology.
After leaving Australia's Monash University in 1980, Dr. Dobson advanced his research career overseas in the Zoology Department at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, followed by 8 years of cardiovascular research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, USA. From his extensive Canadian-NIH experience, Dr. Dobson developed a highly innovative research philosophy which was to tap into hundreds of millions of years of animal adaptations from Nature's own laboratory, and apply them to develop new therapeutics to treat human disease. The Adenocaine™ technology was developed in the late 1990s when Dr. Dobson asked: "Could the human heart in cardiac surgery be pharmacologically manipulated to operate more like the heart of a natural hibernator?"
In 2001, in an effort to translate his laboratory discoveries into cardiac surgery, Dr. Dobson began collaborating with Dr. Jakob VInten-Johansen, Director, Cardiothoracic Research Laboratory of Emory Crawford Long Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. In 2003, Dr. Dobson received a prestigious Australian Academy Science Exchange Scientist Award to further this work in the USA, and in the same year was awarded the Victor Chang Medal for pursuit of excellence in heart research. Dr. Dobson has over 80 publications in high profile journals including those specializing in cardiothoracic surgery. His current research interests include cardioprotection, graft protection, stroke, trauma, hemorrhagic shock and developing new pharmacological algorithims for rescuing and stabilizing the heart, brain and other organs during cardiopulmonary resuscitation and for multiple organ transplantation from suitable donors.
He is a member of the American Physiological Society and the American Heart Association. Dr. Dobson is the author of an overarching 'history of ideas' book entitled "A Chaos of Delight: Science, Religion and Myth and the Shaping of Western Thought", Equinox Academic Press, London 2005.
