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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Andrew C. von Eschenbach, M.D., Independent Director

Andrew C. von Eschenbach, M.D.

Independent Director

Dr. von Eschenbach, M.D. has been President of Samaritan Health Initiatives, Inc., a health care policy consultancy, and an Adjunct Professor at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, since 2010. From 2005 to 2009, Dr. von Eschenbach served as Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and before that served four years as Director of the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health. As a researcher, clinician and administrator, Dr. von Eschenbach served for twenty-six years at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center as Chairman of Urology, Director of the Prostate Cancer Research Program and Executive Vice President and Chief Academic Officer. He earned a B.S. from St. Joseph’s University and a medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. He completed his residency in surgery and urology at Pennsylvania Hospital and University of Pennsylvania, respectively, and his urologic oncology fellowship at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Dr. von Eschenbach served as a director of Radius Health, Inc., a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company from January 2021 to August 2022. He has also served as a director of Celularity, Inc., a private biotechnology company, and as a director of Wren Therapeutics, Ltd, a private biopharmaceutical company, since February 2018 and November 2019, respectively. He has been a member of the board of the Regan Udall Foundation of the FDA, a non-profit organization formed to advance regulatory science, since December 2018.