Nominees for Election to a Three-Year Term Expiring at the 20232026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders
Richard Heyman, Ph.D.Dr. Lawrence Corey has served as a member of our Board of Directors since August 2022. An internationally renowned expert in virology, immunology and vaccine development, Dr. Corey is a former President and Director of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, a world-leading institution focused on prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer, HIV/AIDS and other diseases. Dr. Corey is also a longtime principal investigator of the HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN). A distinguished expert in the design and testing of vaccines with over 30 years’ experience in both therapeutic and prophylactic vaccines against viral diseases, Dr. Corey has pioneered the development of several safe and effective antivirals. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Corey helped design and coordinate a global strategic response, working closely with National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and other entities to test vaccines within the COVID-19 Prevention Network, a network modeled upon HVTN. Dr. Corey is a recipient of multiple industry awards and, most recently, was awarded the 2022 Alexander Fleming Award by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Dr. Corey received his B.S. and M.D. from the University of Michigan and his infectious diseases training at the University of Washington.
We believe that Dr. Corey is qualified to serve on our Board of Directors due to his educational background and his experience in and leadership of biotechnology and pharmaceutical research institutions.
Dr. Shefali Agarwal has served as a member of our boardBoard of directorsDirectors since November 2015.June 2021. Dr. HeymanAgarwal is executive chairmanPresident and Chief Executive Officer of Onxeo S.A. (“Onxeo”), a public clinical stage biotechnology company specializing in the boarddevelopment of directorsinnovative drugs targeting tumor DNA damage response. Previously, Dr. Agarwal held various roles, most notably Executive Vice President and co-founder of Metacrine,Chief Medical and Development Officer, at Epizyme, Inc. (“Epizyme”), a public fully-integrated, commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company developing and delivering novel epigenetic therapies that was acquired by Ipsen in August 2022. Prior to joining Epizyme in 2018, Dr. Agarwal held leadership positions across medical research, clinical development, clinical operations and medical affairs. Dr. Agarwal also served as Chief Medical Officer at SQZ Biotech, Inc. (“SQZ Biotech”), a public biotechnology company, where she built and led the clinical development organization, which included clinical research operations and the regulatory function. Before SQZ Biotech, Dr. Agarwal also held leadership positions at Curis, Inc., a public biotechnology company, and Tesaro, Inc., a biotechnology company developing new therapeutics for the treatmentthat was acquired by GlaxoSmithKline plc. (“GSK”), a public pharmaceutical company. Dr. Agarwal has also held positions of liverincreasing responsibility at Covidien plc, AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and gastrointestinal diseases. He also is the co-founder and chairman ofPfizer, Inc. (“Pfizer”), a public pharmaceutical company. Dr. Agarwal currently sits on the board of directors of ORIC Pharmaceuticals, which is developing drugsOnxeo and Fate Therapeutics, Inc. (“Fate Therapeutics”), a public biotechnology company. In addition to overcome resistancereceiving her medical degree from Bangalore University, Dr. Agarwal holds a master of public health from Johns Hopkins University and an M.S. in cancer. Previously, Dr. Heyman served as president and chief executive officer of Seragon Pharmaceuticals Inc., or Seragon, a privately-held biotechnology company, which was acquired by Genentech in 2014. Prior to Seragon, he co-founded and served as president and chief executive officer of Aragon Pharmaceuticals, Inc., or Aragon, until it was purchased by Johnson & Johnson in 2013. He has been involved in the discovery and development of multiple therapeutic agents approved by the FDA, including the recently approved prostate cancer drug, Erleada. Dr. Heyman is a venture partner for Arch Ventures and also serves on the boards of directors for private life sciences companies Yumanity Therapeutics, Vividion Therapeutics and Amunix Inc. He is Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees at the Salk Institute, on the Board Foundation for the American Association for Cancer Research, or AACR, and on the executive committee at the University of California at San Diego Moores Cancer Center. He has won numerous awards including Ernst and Young San Diego Regional Entrepreneur of the Year and the Endocrine Society Outstanding Innovation Award. Dr. Heyman received a B.S. in chemistrymanagement information systems from the University of Connecticut and a Ph.D. in pharmacology from the University of Minnesota. He was an NIH post-doctoral fellow and staff scientist at the Salk Institute. Baltimore.
We believe that Dr. HeymanAgarwal is qualified to serve on our boardBoard of directorsDirectors due to hisher educational background and hisher experience as a board member and senior executive of biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.
Nicholas Simon has served as a member of our board of directors since September 2015. Mr. Simon is a Senior Managing Director in the Blackstone Life Sciences group, having joined Blackstone as part of its acquisition of Clarus Ventures, LLC, or Clarus, in December of 2018. Prior to joining Blackstone, Mr. Simon was co-founder and Managing Director of Clarus, a venture capital firm focused on life sciences companies, since the firm’s inception in 2005. Prior to Clarus, Mr. Simon was a general partner at MPM Capital, Inc., a healthcare venture capital firm. He has more than 20 years of operating and investment experience in the biopharmaceutical industry including serving as vice president of business and corporate development at Genentech from 1989 to 2000. In addition to Gritstone, Mr. Simon is currently a member of the board of directors of Nuvelution Pharma, Inc., a private pharmaceutical company, and of Lycera Corp., a private pharmaceutical company. He has also been a member of the board of directors of numerous private and public life sciences companies including Achillion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Barrier Therapeutics, Inc., Biovitrum AB, CoTherix, Inc., InterMune, Inc., Pearl Therapeutics Inc., QuatRx Pharmaceuticals Co., Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Sangstat Medical Corporation. Mr. Simon is also a trustee at the Gladstone Institute, a private not-for-profit research institute affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco. Mr. Simon received a B.S. in microbiology from the University of Maryland and an M.B.A. from Loyola University. We believe that Mr. Simon is qualified to serve on our board of directors due to his experience as a board member of biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, and his experience as an investor in new life sciences companies.
Thomas Woiwode, Ph.D. has served as a member of our board of directors since September 2015. Dr. Woiwode has been with Versant Venture Management, LLC, or Versant Ventures, a healthcare investment firm, since 2002 in various capacities, serving as a managing director since July 2014 and previously as a venture partner from June 2011 to July 2014. He has also served in a number of operating roles over this time, most recently as the chief operating officer of Okairos AG, or Okairos, a biopharmaceutical company developing genetic vaccines for major infectious diseases, from April 2011 until May 2013. Prior to Okairos, Dr. Woiwode co-founded EuroVentures, a wholly owned biotechnology incubator within Versant Ventures, and in this role, served as the founding chief business officer for three biotechnology companies created within Versant Ventures. Before joining Versant Ventures, Dr. Woiwode also served as a research scientist at XenoPort, Inc. Dr. Woiwode currently serves on the boards of directors of Adverum Biotechnologies, Inc. and Passage BIO, Inc., each a publicly traded biotechnology company, as well as multiple other privately-held companies. Dr. Woiwode previously served on the boards of directors of publicly traded biopharmaceutical companies CRISPR