CohBar, Inc. announced the appointment of Joseph J. Sarret, M.D., J.D. as Director, effective May 3, 2021. The Board of Directors expresses appreciation for the contribution of Mr. Steven Engle during his tenure as CEO and Director of the company. In addition, Mr. David Greenwood, a current Director with 40 years of financial and operational experience in biotechnology and investment banking, has assumed the role of Chairman of the Board. Most recently, Dr. Sarret served as Chief Business Officer at Corium International, a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company leading the development of new transdermal healthcare products, until its merger with Gurnet Point Capital. He previously served as Senior Vice President, Strategic Accounts at Solazyme, Inc., a company focused on developing renewable natural based products, and as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Sevident, Inc., a start-up biotechnology company developing medical diagnostics and life science research products. Prior to joining Sevident, Dr. Sarret held multiple positions at Codexis, Inc., a publicly traded international industrial biotechnology company, including Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer, and President, Pharmaceutical Services and Enzyme Products. At Codexis, he was responsible for numerous strategic partnerships in the pharmaceutical and bioindustrial sectors, including acquisitions and licensing transactions. In addition, Dr. Sarret had P&L responsibility for the company's global pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturing business unit. Previously, he practiced corporate and transactional law at Latham & Watkins LLP. Dr. Sarret also served as Attending Physician and Acting Medical Director for the HIV Clinic at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center. Dr. Sarret holds a B.A. in Human Biology from Stanford University, an M.D. from the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine and a J.D. from Stanford Law School, and is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha and Order of the Coif honor societies.
CohBar, Inc. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company. The Company is focused on developing therapeutics targeting chronic and age-related diseases. Its processes of identifying nucleic acid sequences encoding native peptides in the mitochondrial genome, developing and optimizing novel analogs of these natural mitochondrial derived peptides (MDPs) and developing and conducting screens to identify and characterize the activities of these are referred to as its technology platform. Its advanced clinical candidate, CB4211, is a therapeutic for the treatment of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and obesity. CB4211 demonstrated positive effects on reducing biomarkers of liver injury and improving metabolic homeostasis in a Phase 1a/1b clinical study in obese subjects with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. CB4211 is a novel and improved analog of MOTS-c, a naturally occurring MDP. CB5138 Analogs are therapeutics that have demonstrated anti-fibrotic properties in a variety of preclinical models.
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