BERNARD HOROWITZ, PhD is an independent consultant in the fields of manufacture, licensure, and safety of biological products. For more than 20 years, Dr. Horowitz headed numerous research and commercial development programs at the Kimball Research Institute and New York Blood Center in New York, and in 1995 he helped found V.I. Technologies, Inc., a for profit spin-out from the New York Blood Center.

Dr. Horowitz was one of the inventors of the solvent/detergent ( 'SD' ) viral inactivation system, now an industry standard in the manufacture of blood plasma products, and he is one of the world's leading experts in viral inactivation and biological safety of human blood products.

Dr. Horowitz holds a PhD in Biochemistry from Cornell University Medical College.