Joseph Fuisz
| Joseph Fuisz | |
|---|---|
| Born | Joseph M. Fuisz |
| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Yale University and the Columbia Law School |
| Occupation | Founder of Fuisz Pharma LLC |
| Organization | Fuisz Pharma LLC |
| Known for | Patents, Inventor on over 40 of MonoSol Rx's thin film patents, Inventor of Suboxone |
| Spouse(s) | Helena Robinson |
| Parent(s) | Richard Fuisz and Patricia Fuisz |
| Website | fuisz.com |
Joseph Fuisz is an American attorney, inventor, and entrepreneur of Slovenian descent. He works predominantly in the pharmaceutical industry as the founder of Fuisz Pharma LLC. As of October 2015, he is named on 32 medical patents.
He has been involved in the development of drug delivery and the approval of new drugs and low emission tobacco products. Joseph Fuisz is a named inventor of the formulation of the drug, Suboxone. The sales of Suboxone in 2013 were reported to be $1.2 billion in the United States.
Joseph Fuisz is the son of Richard Fuisz and Patricia Fuisz. He graduated from Yale University and Columbia Law School.
Joseph Fuisz began his career in law, after graduating from Columbia University. He passed the New York Bar exam and began practising law at Sullivan & Cromwell. He subsequently moved into medical patents, a field his father Richard Fuisz had worked in for a number of years.
In 2000, Joseph Fuisz and Richard Fuisz founded International Fluidics, which was rebranded as Kosmos Pharma Limited two years later. Richard began as the more senior figure in the company, before the sale of the company in 2004. The rebranding came at a time when the company filed a number of patents that successfully allow highly sensitive proteins to be taken orally. One example of this came in 2002, the company successfully developed stamp-size medicine strips that could dissolve quickly in a patient's mouth.
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