B.A. in molecular biology from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Mack has served on the Boards of Directors of numerous biotechnology companies including Angiosyn, Aerie Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:AERI), Ceregene, Proacta Therapeutics, aTyr Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:LIFE), Pathwork Diagnostics, Silence Therapeutics (LON:SLN), and Sutro Biopharma (NASDAQ:STRO). He is currently on the Scientific Advisory Board of City of Hope.
Dr. McCormick has served as a member of Aduro’s Board of Directors since 2010 and has joined Aduro’s Scientific Advisory Board. Dr. McCormick is Director of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Associate Dean of the UCSF School of Medicine. He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society, a society for science since 1996.
About Aduro
Aduro Biotech, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of therapies that are designed to harness the body’s natural immune system for the treatment of patients with challenging diseases. Aduro’s product candidates in the Stimulator of Interferon Genes (STING) and A Proliferation Inducing Ligand (APRIL) pathways are being investigated in cancer, autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.ADU-S100 (MIW815), which potentially activates the intracellular STING receptor for a potent tumor-specific immune response, is being evaluated in patients with cutaneously accessible metastatic solid tumors or lymphomas. BION-1301, a fully blocking monoclonal antibody that blocks APRIL binding to both the BCMA and TACI receptors, is being evaluated in multiple myeloma and as a potential treatment for IgA nephropathy. Aduro is collaborating with a number of leading global pharmaceutical companies to help expand and drive its product pipeline. For more information, please visit www.aduro.com.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include statements regarding our intentions or current expectations concerning, among other things, the potential for our STING and APRIL programs for the treatment of cancer, autoimmune and inflammatory diseases and the value and contributions that Dr. Mack will provide as a director and Dr. McCormick’s role on our Scientific Advisory Board. In some cases, you can identify these statements by forward-looking words such as “may,” “will,” “continue,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “could,” “project,” “expect” or the negative or plural of these words or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results and events to differ materially from those anticipated, including, but not limited to, early or preliminary clinical trial results may not be predictive of future results, our history of net operating losses and uncertainty regarding our ability to achieve profitability, our ability to develop and commercialize our product candidates, our ability to use and expand our technologies to build a pipeline of product candidates, our ability to obtain and maintain regulatory approval of our product candidates, our ability to operate in a competitive industry and compete successfully against competitors that have greater resources than we do, our reliance on third parties, and our ability to obtain and adequately protect intellectual property rights for our product candidates. We discuss many of these risks in greater detail under the heading
