IVERIC bio, Inc. announced the election of Pravin U. Dugel, MD, President of Iveric Bio, to its Board of Directors, effective as of January 1, 2023. Dr. Dugel has been instrumental in helping to shape the Company's business strategy and in overseeing the development and regulatory submission process for avacincaptad pegol (ACP, also known as Zimura(R)) since he joined Iveric Bio in 2020.Pravin U. Dugel, MDDr. Dugel is currently the President of Iveric Bio. He joined as Executive Vice President in April 2020 and was promoted to President of the Company in May 2021.

Dr. Dugel has over 26 years of experience as a retina specialist. Dr. Dugel was previously Managing Partner, Retinal Consultants of Arizona and the Retinal Research Institute; Clinical Professor, USC Eye Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California; and Founding Member, Spectra Eye Institute in Sun City, Arizona. Dr. Dugel has authored more than 200 papers, 35 book chapters and has been invited to lecture at several marquis medical meetings and to serve as a visiting professor at universities worldwide, including in Japan, India, China, Malaysia, Egypt, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Czechoslovakia, Canada and Australia.

Dr. Dugel is internationally recognized as a major clinical researcher and has been a principal investigator in over 100 multicenter clinical trials. His research and educational contributions earned him the prestigious Senior Honor Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO). He has been elected and previously served as the Retina Subspecialty Day Board Chairman for the American Academy of Ophthalmology Annual Meeting, as a member of the Board of Directors of the largest retina society in the United States, the American Society of Retina Specialists (ASRS), and the largest retina society in Europe, EURETINA.Dr. Dugel graduated summa cum laude from Columbia University in New York City.

He then attended UCLA School of Medicine. He completed his residency in ophthalmology at the USC Eye Institute, Keck School of Medicine. Thereafter, he completed his medical retina fellowship at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute and his surgical retina fellowship at the USC Eye Institute, where he was elected to serve on the faculty as the Resident Director.