Effective February 7, 2020, the Board of Directors of NanoViricides, Inc appointed Makarand “Mak” Jawadekar, Ph.D., as a new member of the Board. Dr. Jawadekar was appointed as an Independent Member of the Board of Directors, and will serve as a member of the Company’s Audit, Compensation and Nominating Committees. Makarand “Mak” Jawadekar has over 35 years of experience in the pharma industry spanning both business and research activities. Dr. Jawadekar has extensive experience in joint ventures, alliance management, contracting, outsourcing, benchmarking, performance metrics, pharmaceutical research and development, drug delivery technologies, formulations, clinical supply manufacturing and packaging, clinical trial materials, pharmaceutics, and pharmaceutical sciences. He also has deep knowledge and global experience working across the United States, Europe, India, and other parts of Asia, including Japan and China. He has helped create several pharma R&D partnerships, joint ventures, and collaborations during his career.Dr. Jawadekar serves as a strategic advisor to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies through his independent consultancy, founded in 2010, after retiring from Pfizer, Inc., as Director, Portfolio Management & Analytics, and as Vice President, Asia Colleague Resource Group, in Pfizer Global R&D division. From 1982 to 2010, Dr. Jawadekar held roles of increasing responsibility in technical, management, and business development positions at Pfizer, in the areas of Drug Delivery Technology Assessment, Strategic External Alliance Management, Strategic CMC, Pharma R&D, Clinical Manufacturing, Manufacturing Technology Transfer and Scale-up, beginning as a research scientist in formulations development. Effective February 10, 2020, James Sapirstein resigned as a Member of the Board as well as a Member of its Audit, Nominating and Compensation Committees. Mr. Sapirstein resigned as a result of his recent appointment as President and Chief Executive Officer of AzurRX BioPharma, Inc. and did not indicate that his decision to resign was a result of any disagreement with the Company on any matter relating to the Company’s operations, policies or practices.
NanoViricides, Inc. is a development stage company, which is creating special purpose nanomaterials for antiviral therapy. The Company's novel nanoviricide class of drug candidates are designed to specifically attack enveloped virus particles and to dismantle them. Its lead drug candidate is NV-CoV-2 (API NV-387) for the treatment of COVID-19 disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Its other advanced candidate is NV-HHV-1 for the treatment of Shingles. NV-CoV-2 is its nanoviricide drug candidate for COVID-19 containing the nanoviricide API, NV-387. NV-CoV-2-R is its other drug candidate for COVID-19, which is made up of NV-387 with remdesivir encapsulated within its polymeric micelles. It has developed both of its own drug candidates, NV-CoV-2 and NV-CoV-2-R independently. It is also developing drugs against a number of viral diseases, including RSV, oral and genital Herpes, viral diseases of the eye, including EKC and herpes keratitis, H1N1 swine flu, H5N1 bird flu and others.
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