NanoPhoria appoints Dr Suman Shirodkar as Chair and Prof. Michael Davidson as Non-Executive Member of the Board of Directors.
Suman Shirodkar, M.B., B.S., PhD, an executive with 25 years of leadership experience in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, was named Chair of the Board of Directors. Dr. Shirodkar has held top management roles at McKinsey & Co, Bristol Myers Squibb, Pfizer, Novartis, and The Medicines Company, and has broad leadership experience managing cross functional teams in early portfolio strategy, late-stage product development and approval and global commercialization. Her therapeutic area experience spans cardiology, oncology, diagnostics and anti-virals, and while at Pfizer and Novartis she worked on several leading blockbuster cardiovascular drugs. She has served as a consultant for numerous biotechnology companies and most recently served as CEO at two biotech companies, Larkspur Biosciences, an immuno-oncology start-up, and Cambridge Epigenetix, where she led a team of more than 50 people developing an epigenetic liquid biopsy test for early cancer detection.
@Michael Davidson, MD, a leading expert in the field of lipidology who is currently Professor of Medicine and Director of the Lipid Clinic at the University of Chicago, was named as a non-executive Board member. Prof. Davidson is a serial entrepreneur who co-founded Corvidia and Omthera Pharmaceuticals with Sofinnova Partners, which was the lead investor in both companies. Corvidia was sold to NovoNordisk for up to $2.1 billion in 2020, and Omthera was acquired by AstraZeneca for $443 million in 2013. He currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of New Amsterdam Pharma, which was listed on the NASDAQ in November 2022, and is on the board of Sonothera, a private biotech company. Prof. Davidson is a world authority in the field of cardiology and clinical research has conducted over 1000 clinical trials and has published more than 350 medical journal articles in lipidology.
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