Chair
Member
Chairman of the board
Financial expert
Audit Committee Position

Richard Cohen

Mr. Cohen has been the President of Richard M Cohen Consultants since 1996, a company providing financial consulting services to both public and private companies. From March 2012 to July 2015, he was the Founder and Managing Partner of Chord Advisors, a firm providing outsourced CFO services to both public and private companies. From May 2012 to August 2013, he was the Interim CEO and member of the Board of Directors of CorMedix Inc. (NYSE: CRMD) a biotech firm developing a catheter lock solution and its successful obtaining of a CE mark in Europe. From July 2008 to August 2012, Mr. Cohen was a member of the Board and Chair of the Audit Committee of Rodman and Renshaw, a publicly traded (NASDAQ: RODM) investment banking firm.

From 2006 to the present, he is a member of the Board and the Chair of the Audit Committee of privately held Helix BioMedix currently developing a topical cream to combat skin lesions and cancers in young children. From September 2018 to the present, Mr. Cohen is member of the Board and Audit Chair for Ondas a publicly traded cyber security firm. Mr. Cohen holds a BS with honors from the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), an MBA from Stanford University and a CPA from New York State.

Chair

Peter Honig, MD, MPH

Dr. Honig is an experienced leader in the strategic and tactical aspects of drug and vaccine development with expertise in clinical pharmacology, clinical program and clinical trial design, compliance, medical product safety, and medical product regulation. He is the former head of Global Regulatory Affairs at Pfizer and led their China and Japan drug development organizations. Prior to joining Pfizer, he held senior leadership positions at AstraZeneca and Merck Research Laboratories including oversight for global regulatory affairs, pharmacovigilance, quality assurance, global clinical operations and preclinical drug safety.

Prior to joining industry, Dr. Honig founded and was the first Director of the Office of Drug Safety in the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). Dr. Honig joined CDER as a medical officer in the Division of Oncology and Pulmonary Drug Products in 1993 and held a supervisory position in the Office of New Drugs.

Dr. Honig was the PhRMA representative to the International Conference on Harmonization (ICH) Steering Committee from 2002 to 2021 and a past member of the MedDRA Management Board, and former co-chair of the ICH New Topics Selection Subcommittee. He was a member of the Executive Steering Committee of the FNIH Biomarkers Consortium and is currently on the Drug Information Association (DIA} Board of Directors.

He received his baccalaureate, medical and public health degrees from Columbia University in New York. He has postgraduate training and is board-certified in internal medicine and clinical pharmacology and has authored numerous peer reviewed publications and book chapters. Dr. Honig was Associate Editor of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics from 2010 to 2022.

Member

Ann MacDougall

Ms. MacDougall has more than 20 years of service with public and private boards as member, advisor and executive management.

Previously, she served as a PwC partner (1994 - 2007), including as US General Counsel and member of the 10-person US Management Committee. After a stint in Paris as PwC's Global Deputy General Counsel, she shifted her focus away from law, first as Chief Operating Officer of Acumen Fund (2007 - 2012), a global impact investment fund focused on goods and services for low-income consumers, then as President of Encore.org (2014 - 2017), a national non-profit that promotes second act careers.

Currently she serves as a board director of Opiant Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: OPNT), a public company focused on addiction and overdose, where she chairs the Compensation Committee, serves on the Governance and Nominations Committee and has served on the Audit Committee. She is also on the board of Atmos XR, a private IOT technology company. In 2020, she completed her service as Interim Chair of the Board at Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a public company focused on cancer detection and diagnosis. She is an advisor to Nuvo Assets Inc, a rare earths and metals company and is on the Investment Committee of the Builders Fund.

In her volunteer capacity, Ann serves as board member and Governance Committee chair of Strong Minds, a non-profit tackling mental illness in Africa. She is on the Advisory Boards of Global Citizen Year, a U.S. education non-profit, Equality Now, a global women's rights non-organization, The Harvard Advanced Leadership Coalition, and the Global Leadership Council of the World Research Institute, a sustainability research group working with governments and large companies across the world.

Member
Compensation Committee Position

Ann MacDougall

Ms. MacDougall has more than 20 years of service with public and private boards as member, advisor and executive management.

Previously, she served as a PwC partner (1994 - 2007), including as US General Counsel and member of the 10-person US Management Committee. After a stint in Paris as PwC's Global Deputy General Counsel, she shifted her focus away from law, first as Chief Operating Officer of Acumen Fund (2007 - 2012), a global impact investment fund focused on goods and services for low-income consumers, then as President of Encore.org (2014 - 2017), a national non-profit that promotes second act careers.

Currently she serves as a board director of Opiant Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: OPNT), a public company focused on addiction and overdose, where she chairs the Compensation Committee, serves on the Governance and Nominations Committee and has served on the Audit Committee. She is also on the board of Atmos XR, a private IOT technology company. In 2020, she completed her service as Interim Chair of the Board at Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a public company focused on cancer detection and diagnosis. She is an advisor to Nuvo Assets Inc, a rare earths and metals company and is on the Investment Committee of the Builders Fund.

In her volunteer capacity, Ann serves as board member and Governance Committee chair of Strong Minds, a non-profit tackling mental illness in Africa. She is on the Advisory Boards of Global Citizen Year, a U.S. education non-profit, Equality Now, a global women's rights non-organization, The Harvard Advanced Leadership Coalition, and the Global Leadership Council of the World Research Institute, a sustainability research group working with governments and large companies across the world.

Chair

William W. Chin, MD

Dr. Chin is the Bertarelli Professor of Translational Medical Science and Professor of Medicine Emeritus at Harvard Medical School. He is currently advising a number of startup biotech companies and serves on the Boards of Regenacy Pharmaceuticals and Deck Therapeutics. Dr. Chin has been a Director of Alopexx since June 2021.

He was EVP, Science and Regulatory Advocacy, and CMO at the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) (2013 to 2018), where he led PhRMA's efforts in science and regulatory advocacy in the drug discovery and development ecosystem. Prior to PhRMA, he was the Executive Dean for Research at Harvard Medical School (2010 to 2013). Before that, he was at Eli Lilly and Company, last as Senior Vice President for Discovery Research and Clinical Investigation.

Dr. Chin is a Harvard-trained endocrinologist and longstanding faculty member with an extensive bibliography of over 300 papers, chapters and books. During his more than 25 years on the Harvard Medical School faculty, he was Chief of the Genetics Division in the Department of Medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and Professor of Medicine.

As a pioneering molecular endocrinologist, Dr. Chin embraced the early use of emerging DNA technology to make important discoveries regarding the structure, function and regulation of hormone genes. He has been honored with numerous awards for research, mentorship and leadership. He received his A.B. in chemistry from Columbia University and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School.

Member

Richard Cohen

Mr. Cohen has been the President of Richard M Cohen Consultants since 1996, a company providing financial consulting services to both public and private companies. From March 2012 to July 2015, he was the Founder and Managing Partner of Chord Advisors, a firm providing outsourced CFO services to both public and private companies. From May 2012 to August 2013, he was the Interim CEO and member of the Board of Directors of CorMedix Inc. (NYSE: CRMD) a biotech firm developing a catheter lock solution and its successful obtaining of a CE mark in Europe. From July 2008 to August 2012, Mr. Cohen was a member of the Board and Chair of the Audit Committee of Rodman and Renshaw, a publicly traded (NASDAQ: RODM) investment banking firm.

From 2006 to the present, he is a member of the Board and the Chair of the Audit Committee of privately held Helix BioMedix currently developing a topical cream to combat skin lesions and cancers in young children. From September 2018 to the present, Mr. Cohen is member of the Board and Audit Chair for Ondas a publicly traded cyber security firm. Mr. Cohen holds a BS with honors from the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), an MBA from Stanford University and a CPA from New York State.

Member
Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee Position

Ann MacDougall

Ms. MacDougall has more than 20 years of service with public and private boards as member, advisor and executive management.

Previously, she served as a PwC partner (1994 - 2007), including as US General Counsel and member of the 10-person US Management Committee. After a stint in Paris as PwC's Global Deputy General Counsel, she shifted her focus away from law, first as Chief Operating Officer of Acumen Fund (2007 - 2012), a global impact investment fund focused on goods and services for low-income consumers, then as President of Encore.org (2014 - 2017), a national non-profit that promotes second act careers.

Currently she serves as a board director of Opiant Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: OPNT), a public company focused on addiction and overdose, where she chairs the Compensation Committee, serves on the Governance and Nominations Committee and has served on the Audit Committee. She is also on the board of Atmos XR, a private IOT technology company. In 2020, she completed her service as Interim Chair of the Board at Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a public company focused on cancer detection and diagnosis. She is an advisor to Nuvo Assets Inc, a rare earths and metals company and is on the Investment Committee of the Builders Fund.

In her volunteer capacity, Ann serves as board member and Governance Committee chair of Strong Minds, a non-profit tackling mental illness in Africa. She is on the Advisory Boards of Global Citizen Year, a U.S. education non-profit, Equality Now, a global women's rights non-organization, The Harvard Advanced Leadership Coalition, and the Global Leadership Council of the World Research Institute, a sustainability research group working with governments and large companies across the world.

Chair

Gail H. Cassell, PhD

Dr. Cassell is Senior Lecturer, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) of the National Academy of Sciences, served two terms on the governing board and founded the Forum on Drug Discovery, Development and Translation. She is former Vice President for Scientific Affairs and Distinguished Lilly Research Scholar of Infectious Diseases and former Vice President for Infectious Diseases Drug Discovery and Development of Eli Lilly and Company. Prior to moving to Lilly in 1997, Dr. Cassell was the Charles H. McCauley Professor and Chair of the Department of Microbiology at the University of Alabama Schools of Medicine and Dentistry at Birmingham, a department which ranked first in research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) during the decade of her leadership. She obtained her B.S. from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and in 1993 was selected by that institution as one of the top 31 female graduates of the Centennial following the admission of the first female to the University in 1893. She obtained her Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and was selected as its 2003 Distinguished Alumnus. She is a past President of the American Society for Microbiology and is currently serving her second elected term on the Board of Governors of the American Academy of Microbiology.

Dr. Cassell is an elected lifetime member of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations. She was named to the original Board of Scientific Councilors of the Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and served as Chair of the Board. She has served on the Advisory Board of the of the Director of NIH, Director of CDC, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services Advisory Council of Public Health Preparedness, the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Science Board, the Advisory Committee to the Commissioner. She was a member of the NIH Science Management Board and Advisory Councils of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Fogarty International Center of NIH. For two decades she was a member of the Steering Committee of the U.S.-Japan Cooperative Medical Sciences Program responsible for advising the respective governments on joint research agendas, (U.S. State Department/Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs). She was instrumental in establishment of the U.S./Russia Cooperative Medical Sciences and Training Program under the Bilateral Presidential Commission in 2009 which was a collaboration involving NIH, the US National Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. In 2012, the American Society for Microbiology and the Federation of European Microbiology Societies established the Mäkelä–Cassell Exchange Program for pioneering international engagement for young scientists.

She has served on several editorial boards of scientific journals and has authored over 350 articles and book chapters. She has received national and international awards for her research in infectious diseases, including: two honorary degrees; the CDC Honor Award in Public Health for exceptional leadership and contributions in the development and implementation of CDC's Emerging Infectious Disease Plan 1997; a Citation from the FDA Commissioner for her role as Chair of the review of science and technology at the FDA and the Report FDA: Science and Mission at Risk 2008.

Member

Richard Cohen

Mr. Cohen has been the President of Richard M Cohen Consultants since 1996, a company providing financial consulting services to both public and private companies. From March 2012 to July 2015, he was the Founder and Managing Partner of Chord Advisors, a firm providing outsourced CFO services to both public and private companies. From May 2012 to August 2013, he was the Interim CEO and member of the Board of Directors of CorMedix Inc. (NYSE: CRMD) a biotech firm developing a catheter lock solution and its successful obtaining of a CE mark in Europe. From July 2008 to August 2012, Mr. Cohen was a member of the Board and Chair of the Audit Committee of Rodman and Renshaw, a publicly traded (NASDAQ: RODM) investment banking firm.

From 2006 to the present, he is a member of the Board and the Chair of the Audit Committee of privately held Helix BioMedix currently developing a topical cream to combat skin lesions and cancers in young children. From September 2018 to the present, Mr. Cohen is member of the Board and Audit Chair for Ondas a publicly traded cyber security firm. Mr. Cohen holds a BS with honors from the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), an MBA from Stanford University and a CPA from New York State.

Member

Richard Cohen

Mr. Cohen has been the President of Richard M Cohen Consultants since 1996, a company providing financial consulting services to both public and private companies. From March 2012 to July 2015, he was the Founder and Managing Partner of Chord Advisors, a firm providing outsourced CFO services to both public and private companies. From May 2012 to August 2013, he was the Interim CEO and member of the Board of Directors of CorMedix Inc. (NYSE: CRMD) a biotech firm developing a catheter lock solution and its successful obtaining of a CE mark in Europe. From July 2008 to August 2012, Mr. Cohen was a member of the Board and Chair of the Audit Committee of Rodman and Renshaw, a publicly traded (NASDAQ: RODM) investment banking firm.

From 2006 to the present, he is a member of the Board and the Chair of the Audit Committee of privately held Helix BioMedix currently developing a topical cream to combat skin lesions and cancers in young children. From September 2018 to the present, Mr. Cohen is member of the Board and Audit Chair for Ondas a publicly traded cyber security firm. Mr. Cohen holds a BS with honors from the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), an MBA from Stanford University and a CPA from New York State.

Peter Honig, MD, MPH

Dr. Honig is an experienced leader in the strategic and tactical aspects of drug and vaccine development with expertise in clinical pharmacology, clinical program and clinical trial design, compliance, medical product safety, and medical product regulation. He is the former head of Global Regulatory Affairs at Pfizer and led their China and Japan drug development organizations. Prior to joining Pfizer, he held senior leadership positions at AstraZeneca and Merck Research Laboratories including oversight for global regulatory affairs, pharmacovigilance, quality assurance, global clinical operations and preclinical drug safety.

Prior to joining industry, Dr. Honig founded and was the first Director of the Office of Drug Safety in the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). Dr. Honig joined CDER as a medical officer in the Division of Oncology and Pulmonary Drug Products in 1993 and held a supervisory position in the Office of New Drugs.

Dr. Honig was the PhRMA representative to the International Conference on Harmonization (ICH) Steering Committee from 2002 to 2021 and a past member of the MedDRA Management Board, and former co-chair of the ICH New Topics Selection Subcommittee. He was a member of the Executive Steering Committee of the FNIH Biomarkers Consortium and is currently on the Drug Information Association (DIA} Board of Directors.

He received his baccalaureate, medical and public health degrees from Columbia University in New York. He has postgraduate training and is board-certified in internal medicine and clinical pharmacology and has authored numerous peer reviewed publications and book chapters. Dr. Honig was Associate Editor of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics from 2010 to 2022.

Ann MacDougall

Ms. MacDougall has more than 20 years of service with public and private boards as member, advisor and executive management.

Previously, she served as a PwC partner (1994 - 2007), including as US General Counsel and member of the 10-person US Management Committee. After a stint in Paris as PwC's Global Deputy General Counsel, she shifted her focus away from law, first as Chief Operating Officer of Acumen Fund (2007 - 2012), a global impact investment fund focused on goods and services for low-income consumers, then as President of Encore.org (2014 - 2017), a national non-profit that promotes second act careers.

Currently she serves as a board director of Opiant Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: OPNT), a public company focused on addiction and overdose, where she chairs the Compensation Committee, serves on the Governance and Nominations Committee and has served on the Audit Committee. She is also on the board of Atmos XR, a private IOT technology company. In 2020, she completed her service as Interim Chair of the Board at Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a public company focused on cancer detection and diagnosis. She is an advisor to Nuvo Assets Inc, a rare earths and metals company and is on the Investment Committee of the Builders Fund.

In her volunteer capacity, Ann serves as board member and Governance Committee chair of Strong Minds, a non-profit tackling mental illness in Africa. She is on the Advisory Boards of Global Citizen Year, a U.S. education non-profit, Equality Now, a global women's rights non-organization, The Harvard Advanced Leadership Coalition, and the Global Leadership Council of the World Research Institute, a sustainability research group working with governments and large companies across the world.

Ann MacDougall

Ms. MacDougall has more than 20 years of service with public and private boards as member, advisor and executive management.

Previously, she served as a PwC partner (1994 - 2007), including as US General Counsel and member of the 10-person US Management Committee. After a stint in Paris as PwC's Global Deputy General Counsel, she shifted her focus away from law, first as Chief Operating Officer of Acumen Fund (2007 - 2012), a global impact investment fund focused on goods and services for low-income consumers, then as President of Encore.org (2014 - 2017), a national non-profit that promotes second act careers.

Currently she serves as a board director of Opiant Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: OPNT), a public company focused on addiction and overdose, where she chairs the Compensation Committee, serves on the Governance and Nominations Committee and has served on the Audit Committee. She is also on the board of Atmos XR, a private IOT technology company. In 2020, she completed her service as Interim Chair of the Board at Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a public company focused on cancer detection and diagnosis. She is an advisor to Nuvo Assets Inc, a rare earths and metals company and is on the Investment Committee of the Builders Fund.

In her volunteer capacity, Ann serves as board member and Governance Committee chair of Strong Minds, a non-profit tackling mental illness in Africa. She is on the Advisory Boards of Global Citizen Year, a U.S. education non-profit, Equality Now, a global women's rights non-organization, The Harvard Advanced Leadership Coalition, and the Global Leadership Council of the World Research Institute, a sustainability research group working with governments and large companies across the world.

William W. Chin, MD

Dr. Chin is the Bertarelli Professor of Translational Medical Science and Professor of Medicine Emeritus at Harvard Medical School. He is currently advising a number of startup biotech companies and serves on the Boards of Regenacy Pharmaceuticals and Deck Therapeutics. Dr. Chin has been a Director of Alopexx since June 2021.

He was EVP, Science and Regulatory Advocacy, and CMO at the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) (2013 to 2018), where he led PhRMA's efforts in science and regulatory advocacy in the drug discovery and development ecosystem. Prior to PhRMA, he was the Executive Dean for Research at Harvard Medical School (2010 to 2013). Before that, he was at Eli Lilly and Company, last as Senior Vice President for Discovery Research and Clinical Investigation.

Dr. Chin is a Harvard-trained endocrinologist and longstanding faculty member with an extensive bibliography of over 300 papers, chapters and books. During his more than 25 years on the Harvard Medical School faculty, he was Chief of the Genetics Division in the Department of Medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and Professor of Medicine.

As a pioneering molecular endocrinologist, Dr. Chin embraced the early use of emerging DNA technology to make important discoveries regarding the structure, function and regulation of hormone genes. He has been honored with numerous awards for research, mentorship and leadership. He received his A.B. in chemistry from Columbia University and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School.

Richard Cohen

Mr. Cohen has been the President of Richard M Cohen Consultants since 1996, a company providing financial consulting services to both public and private companies. From March 2012 to July 2015, he was the Founder and Managing Partner of Chord Advisors, a firm providing outsourced CFO services to both public and private companies. From May 2012 to August 2013, he was the Interim CEO and member of the Board of Directors of CorMedix Inc. (NYSE: CRMD) a biotech firm developing a catheter lock solution and its successful obtaining of a CE mark in Europe. From July 2008 to August 2012, Mr. Cohen was a member of the Board and Chair of the Audit Committee of Rodman and Renshaw, a publicly traded (NASDAQ: RODM) investment banking firm.

From 2006 to the present, he is a member of the Board and the Chair of the Audit Committee of privately held Helix BioMedix currently developing a topical cream to combat skin lesions and cancers in young children. From September 2018 to the present, Mr. Cohen is member of the Board and Audit Chair for Ondas a publicly traded cyber security firm. Mr. Cohen holds a BS with honors from the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), an MBA from Stanford University and a CPA from New York State.

Ann MacDougall

Ms. MacDougall has more than 20 years of service with public and private boards as member, advisor and executive management.

Previously, she served as a PwC partner (1994 - 2007), including as US General Counsel and member of the 10-person US Management Committee. After a stint in Paris as PwC's Global Deputy General Counsel, she shifted her focus away from law, first as Chief Operating Officer of Acumen Fund (2007 - 2012), a global impact investment fund focused on goods and services for low-income consumers, then as President of Encore.org (2014 - 2017), a national non-profit that promotes second act careers.

Currently she serves as a board director of Opiant Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: OPNT), a public company focused on addiction and overdose, where she chairs the Compensation Committee, serves on the Governance and Nominations Committee and has served on the Audit Committee. She is also on the board of Atmos XR, a private IOT technology company. In 2020, she completed her service as Interim Chair of the Board at Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a public company focused on cancer detection and diagnosis. She is an advisor to Nuvo Assets Inc, a rare earths and metals company and is on the Investment Committee of the Builders Fund.

In her volunteer capacity, Ann serves as board member and Governance Committee chair of Strong Minds, a non-profit tackling mental illness in Africa. She is on the Advisory Boards of Global Citizen Year, a U.S. education non-profit, Equality Now, a global women's rights non-organization, The Harvard Advanced Leadership Coalition, and the Global Leadership Council of the World Research Institute, a sustainability research group working with governments and large companies across the world.

Gail H. Cassell, PhD

Dr. Cassell is Senior Lecturer, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) of the National Academy of Sciences, served two terms on the governing board and founded the Forum on Drug Discovery, Development and Translation. She is former Vice President for Scientific Affairs and Distinguished Lilly Research Scholar of Infectious Diseases and former Vice President for Infectious Diseases Drug Discovery and Development of Eli Lilly and Company. Prior to moving to Lilly in 1997, Dr. Cassell was the Charles H. McCauley Professor and Chair of the Department of Microbiology at the University of Alabama Schools of Medicine and Dentistry at Birmingham, a department which ranked first in research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) during the decade of her leadership. She obtained her B.S. from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and in 1993 was selected by that institution as one of the top 31 female graduates of the Centennial following the admission of the first female to the University in 1893. She obtained her Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and was selected as its 2003 Distinguished Alumnus. She is a past President of the American Society for Microbiology and is currently serving her second elected term on the Board of Governors of the American Academy of Microbiology.

Dr. Cassell is an elected lifetime member of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations. She was named to the original Board of Scientific Councilors of the Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and served as Chair of the Board. She has served on the Advisory Board of the of the Director of NIH, Director of CDC, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services Advisory Council of Public Health Preparedness, the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Science Board, the Advisory Committee to the Commissioner. She was a member of the NIH Science Management Board and Advisory Councils of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Fogarty International Center of NIH. For two decades she was a member of the Steering Committee of the U.S.-Japan Cooperative Medical Sciences Program responsible for advising the respective governments on joint research agendas, (U.S. State Department/Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs). She was instrumental in establishment of the U.S./Russia Cooperative Medical Sciences and Training Program under the Bilateral Presidential Commission in 2009 which was a collaboration involving NIH, the US National Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. In 2012, the American Society for Microbiology and the Federation of European Microbiology Societies established the Mäkelä–Cassell Exchange Program for pioneering international engagement for young scientists.

She has served on several editorial boards of scientific journals and has authored over 350 articles and book chapters. She has received national and international awards for her research in infectious diseases, including: two honorary degrees; the CDC Honor Award in Public Health for exceptional leadership and contributions in the development and implementation of CDC's Emerging Infectious Disease Plan 1997; a Citation from the FDA Commissioner for her role as Chair of the review of science and technology at the FDA and the Report FDA: Science and Mission at Risk 2008.

Richard Cohen

Mr. Cohen has been the President of Richard M Cohen Consultants since 1996, a company providing financial consulting services to both public and private companies. From March 2012 to July 2015, he was the Founder and Managing Partner of Chord Advisors, a firm providing outsourced CFO services to both public and private companies. From May 2012 to August 2013, he was the Interim CEO and member of the Board of Directors of CorMedix Inc. (NYSE: CRMD) a biotech firm developing a catheter lock solution and its successful obtaining of a CE mark in Europe. From July 2008 to August 2012, Mr. Cohen was a member of the Board and Chair of the Audit Committee of Rodman and Renshaw, a publicly traded (NASDAQ: RODM) investment banking firm.

From 2006 to the present, he is a member of the Board and the Chair of the Audit Committee of privately held Helix BioMedix currently developing a topical cream to combat skin lesions and cancers in young children. From September 2018 to the present, Mr. Cohen is member of the Board and Audit Chair for Ondas a publicly traded cyber security firm. Mr. Cohen holds a BS with honors from the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), an MBA from Stanford University and a CPA from New York State.