James Oberhauser

James Oberhauser is currently Associate Director, Device Development and Clinical Packaging Engineering at Gilead Sciences in Foster City, CA. His responsibilities include growing a device development team to meet the needs of the parenteral and biologics pipeline and establishing the quality system infrastructure essential to a successful device development enterprise. Previously, Dr. Oberhauser led product development of Abbott Vascular’s Absorb™ Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold (BVS), authoring the seminal article on the therapy in EuroIntervention and receiving the Innovation Team Award from the Abbott Laboratories Volwiler Society. Dr. Oberhauser holds 47 issued patents and has authored 22 peer-reviewed journal publications.
Dr. Oberhauser received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he studied structure-property relationships in polymeric materials. He also spent over 6 years on the faculty of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Virginia.