to that, he served as vice president and chief business officer of Monogram Biosciences, Inc., which was acquired by Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (d/b/a LabCorp) in 2009. From April 2003 to December 2004, Mr. Dunn was chief business officer for ACLARA BioSciences, Inc., through its merger with ViroLogic, Inc.; the combined entity subsequently changed its name to Monogram Biosciences, Inc. From March 2002 to April 2003, Mr. Dunn served as executive vice president of business development for ActivX Biosciences, Inc., a biotechnology company, and helped engineer a partnership with Kyorin Pharmaceuticals, Co. Ltd. of Japan, which acquired ActivX Biosciences, Inc. the following year. From July 1998 to March 2002, Mr. Dunn was vice president of business development for Aurora Biosciences Corporation, a biotechnology tools company, through its acquisition by Vertex Pharmaceuticals. From 1995 to 1998, Mr. Dunn was vice president of business development for SIBIA Neurosciences, Inc., a publicly traded company, and, from 1984 to 1994, was director of business development at the predecessor company, SIBIA, Inc. Mr. Dunn holds an M.B.A. from the University of San Diego and a bachelor’s degree in Biology from the University of Chicago.
Daniel Geffken, MBA has served as our Interim Chief Financial Officer since the closing of the Merger in March 2023. Prior to that, he served as Private CalciMedica’s Interim Chief Financial Officer from October 2020 to March 2023. Since August 2010, Mr. Geffken has served as a founder and managing director at Danforth Advisors, LLC (“Danforth”), where he has served as a consultant to life science and biotechnology companies. Mr. Geffken has served through Danforth as interim Chief Financial Officer of Eloxx Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a publicly traded company, since April 2021. He previously served as interim Chief Financial Officer through Danforth of Elicio Therapeutics Inc. from April 2014 to May 2023 and as a member of its board of directors from April 2014 until June 2023. Mr. Geffken, through Danforth, previously served as interim chief financial officer of various companies including Atea Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from July 2019 to September 2020, Lysosomal Technologies, Inc. from July 2013 to July 2020, Promedior, Inc. from May 2012 to March 2020, and Stealth BioTherapeutics Corp from November 2016 to May 2019. Mr. Geffken, through Danforth, previously served as senior financial advisor of various companies including Graybug Vision, Inc. from September 2019 to October 2020, Cabaletta Bio, Inc. from April 2018 to December 2019, Kallyope, Inc. from September 2015 to December 2019, Lyra Therapeutics, Inc. from November 2015 to April 2019, and ImmunsanT, Inc. from October 2018 to March 2019. Since 2019, Mr. Geffken has been a member of the board of directors of Windtree Therapeutics, Inc., a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company, and, from May 2013 to October 2017, he was a member of the board of directors of Alcobra Ltd., a publicly traded biotechnology company that merged with Arcturus Therapeutics, Inc. From November 2017 until May 2018, Mr. Geffken served on the board of directors of Arcturus Therapeutics Ltd., a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company. Mr. Geffken holds a B.S. in Economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Sudarshan Hebbar, M.D. has served as our Chief Medical Officer since the closing of the Merger in March 2023. Prior to that, he served in various roles at Private CalciMedica including as its Chief Medical Officer from April 2017 to March 2023, its Senior Vice President of Clinical Development, from November 2015 to April 2017, and as a consultant from June 2014 to November 2015. From January 2015 to October 2015, Dr. Hebbar was a consultant for Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, where he served as the clinical development lead for a global multicenter Phase 4 trial. From July 2013 to June 2014, he was the vice president of nephrology at Thrasos Innovation. From July 2013 to October 2013, Dr. Hebbar served as medical vice president and a member of the U.S. board of directors at Oncimmune Holdings plc, an immunodiagnostics company. Before joining Oncimmune, Dr. Hebbar served as a medical director at Reata Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company. Dr. Hebbar began his industry career at Abbott Laboratories, where he served as a senior medical director. Prior to joining Abbott Laboratories, Dr. Hebbar was a medical director at Dialysis Clinics Incorporated and a partner at Kidney Associates of Kansas City. Dr. Hebbar holds a B.A. in Natural Sciences from The Johns Hopkins University and an M.D. from Tulane University School of Medicine. He completed a residency in Internal Medicine and a fellowship in Critical Care Medicine, both at Hennepin County Medical Center, a fellowship in Nephrology at the University of Chicago and a fellowship in Clinical Medical Ethics at The Maclean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago.
Mr. Roberts’s biographical information is set forth above.
Kenneth A. Stauderman, Ph.D. has served as our Chief Scientific Officer since the closing of the Merger in March 2023. Dr. Stauderman is one of Private CalciMedica’s co-founders and served as its Chief Scientific Officer from April 2017 to March 2023, and previously served as its Senior Vice President of Research and Development, from August 2014 to April 2017, and as its Vice President of Research, from April 2007 to August 2014. From 2000 to 2007, Dr. Stauderman was executive director of biology and lead discovery at TorreyPines Therapeutics (f/k/a
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