Aditx Therapeutics, Inc Announces the Appointment of Dr. Lauren Chung to its Board of Directors
June 18, 2021 at 08:00 am
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Aditx Therapeutics, Inc. announced that Dr. Lauren Chung will join the Aditxt board of directors as an independent director. Dr. Chung has over 20 years of healthcare investment management, investment banking, and advisory experience, and is currently a venture partner at Yozma Group Korea. She is the founder and CEO of MINLEIGH LLC, which is focused on identifying, evaluating, and partnering with companies for investments and strategic, operational, and commercial opportunities. Prior to her current roles, Dr. Chung was a managing director in Healthcare Research at WestPark Capital. Previously, she was a co-founder of Tokum Capital Management, a global healthcare fund, which merged with Perella Weinberg Partners. Prior to that, Dr. Chung managed healthcare investment portfolios at institutional investment firms. Earlier in her career, Dr. Chung was a research scientist doing cutting-edge work in neurodegenerative and genetic disorders at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital.
Aditxt, Inc. is a biotech company focused on discovering, developing, and deploying health innovations. It develops and commercializes technologies with a focus on monitoring and modulating the immune system. Its portfolio includes Adimune, Inc., developing a new class of therapeutics designed to retrain the immune system to address organ rejection, autoimmunity, and allergies; Adivir, Inc., focused on identifying, developing, and commercializing new ways to treat infectious diseases, and Pearsanta, Inc., offering personalized lab testing, backed by CLIA-certified and CAP-accredited monitoring center. Adimune, Inc's immune modulation product candidate, ADI-100, is based on the Apoptotic DNA Immunotherapy platform technology, utilizes a novel approach that mimics the way bodies naturally induce tolerance to own tissues. It also offers electroencephalography (EEG) brain monitoring technologies and devices, including NeuroCap and NeuroEEG for telehealth and tele-neurology applications.