GeoVax Labs, Inc. Appoints Randal D. Chase to Board of Directors
March 23, 2015 at 06:30 pm IST
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GeoVax Labs, Inc. announced that it has appointed vaccine industry expert, Randal D. Chase, Ph.D. to its board of directors. Dr. Chase, 65, currently serves as a business advisor and consultant to companies in the life science sector. From 2006 to 2011, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Immunovaccine, Inc. Dr. Chase is also a former
president of Shire Biologics, North American Vaccine, Pasteur Merieux Connaught, and Quadra Logic Technologies, Inc. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board for Medimabs, Inc.
GeoVax Labs, Inc. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing human vaccines and immunotherapies against infectious diseases and solid tumor cancers using proprietary platforms. Its product pipeline includes ongoing human clinical trials for a Covid-19 vaccine and a gene-directed therapy against advanced head and neck cancers. Its additional research and development programs include preventive vaccines against Mpox and smallpox, hemorrhagic fever viruses (Ebola Zaire, Ebola Sudan and Marburg), Zika virus and malaria, as well as immunotherapies for multiple solid tumors. The Companyâs portfolio of wholly owned, co-owned, and in-licensed intellectual property, stands at over 155 granted or pending patent applications spread over 24 patent families. Its product candidate includes GEO-CM04S1, GEO-CM02, Gedeptin, MVA-VLP-MUC1, GEO-ZM02 and others. Its lead infectious disease candidate is GEO-CM04S1, a COVID-19 vaccine targeting high-risk immunocompromised patient populations.