Sigma-Tau Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Announces that Brian Schreiber, M.D. joins Sigma-Tau as Vice President of Medical Affairs

GAITHERSBURG, MD -- 01/15/2007 -- Sigma-Tau Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is pleased to announce that Brian Schreiber, M.D. has joined Sigma-Tau as Vice President of Medical Affairs. In this role, Dr. Schreiber leads the team responsible for the activities of Medical Affairs including healthcare provider education, guidance on clinical research projects, provision of Medical Information Service, and providing a Medical interface with Marketing, Regulatory, and Business Development. Prior to joining Sigma-Tau, Dr. Schreiber served as Chief Medical Director of Dialysis Care Inc., a multi-center dialysis chain providing services in northeast and central Wisconsin and continues to remain active in this capacity. He was also Chairman of Nephrology at LaSalle Clinic, Affinity Medical System for five years prior to establishing Fox Valley Nephrology as a joint venture between Affinity Medical Group and Thedacare Health systems. He served as its first president until 2001. During this time Dr. Schreiber served as a medical consultant to Sigma-Tau. Dr Schreiber has continued his activities in academia, having been appointed as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Dr. Schreiber serves on the staffs of several hospitals in Wisconsin including St. Elizabeth and Appleton Medical Centers in Appleton, Wisconsin and Theda Clark Medical Center in Neenah, Wisconsin. He has published a variety of academic papers including original research, review articles, and a textbook chapter on inflammation and renal disease and has given numerous lectures and symposia in academic settings.

Dr. Schreiber was born and raised in New York City. He received his secondary education at the Horace Mann School in New York, where he graduated as valedictorian and a member of the Cum Laude Society. He received his undergraduate degree Magna Cum Laude from Brandeis University, Waltham Mass where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his MD from SUNY Buffalo, graduating Cum Laude and subsequently completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the Robert Packer Hospital, Guthrie Clinic in Sayre Pennsylvania where he served one year as Chief Medical Resident. Prior to pursuing his nephrology fellowship he served as a staff internist at Cornell University in Ithaca New York where he was Chairman of the Education Committee and served on the human subjects committee for the University. Dr. Schreiber chose to specialize in Nephrology and completed his fellowship in Nephrology at the Medical Center Hospital of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. Upon completion of his fellowship he served on the Nephrology faculty as an instructor in medicine for one year prior to moving to Wisconsin to join the LaSalle Clinic as an attending in Nephrology.

Dr. Schreiber lives in Neenah, Wisconsin with his wife, Lorrene, daughters Jill, Rachel, and Whitney, son-in law Gregg, and granddaughter, Emily Jean. His family also includes his beloved sheltie named Daisy and a sixteen hand American Saddlebred Mare named Bella.