AXIM Biotechnologies, Inc. Appoints Mauricio Javier Gatto-Bellora to Company’s Board of Directors
April 04, 2019 at 08:30 pm IST
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AXIM Biotechnologies, Inc. announced the appointment of Mauricio Javier Gatto-Bellora to the Company’s Board of Directors. Gatto-Bellora has more than three decades of experience in the pharmaceutical, biochemistry and cosmetics industries throughout the world with a specialty in strategizing and implementing plans for international success. His business background encompasses several prominent companies, including Mary Kay, Inc., MonaVie, Natura and Allergan, spanning multiple countries including Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. While working with Natura, he served as the CEO-International, CEO-Brazil & Latin America, President-Latin America and General Manager-Argentina and was responsible for more than $5 billion in sales. Gatto-Bellora was also the President, CEO and Chairman of the Board of MonaVie, selling the company’s nutritional products in 46 countries. Currently, Gatto-Bellora is the founder and President of Hair Ventures, LLC and founder and CEO of Daumdeuman, LLC.
Axim Biotechnologies, Inc. is a vertically integrated research and development company. The Company is focused on improving the landscape for the diagnosis of ophthalmological conditions such as dry eye disease (DED) through rapid diagnostic tests. Its core competencies include development of rapid lateral flow immunoassays, reagents, and monoclonal antibody development for such assays. Its product categories include Eye Health, wherein the Company acquired two FDA cleared tests for dye eye disease and has internally developed a third assay; and SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody tests. The Company is focused on developing a proprietary diagnostic platform that can be adapted to test for a variety of analytes including SARS-Cov-2, Lactoferrin, IgE, Lacritin, and MMP-9. Its platform capability can also be applied to rapid testing for vaccine candidates. Its platform can also be used to enable point-of-care detection for one or more cancers using a unique cancer biomarker, QSOX1-L.