Sunday, October 2, 2011

Aura Biosciences adds directors, adviser - Boston Business Journal:

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Lawrence C. Best, chairman of and the former chierf financial officerof (NYSE: will join Aura’s board. Betweem 1992 and 2007, Best served as an executiv e vice president and CFO for Boston a global leader in medicaldevices technology. Previously, Best was a partner at . Aura also said Sangeetaa N. Bhatia, a professoer specializing in health electrical engineering and computer has joinedits board. Bhatia is a memberf of the andthe . She also is an associatd member of the and a biomedical engineee atin Boston. Aura also said Richarc P. Kivel, CEO of in has joined it formal support network ofcorporater advisors. Since April 2006 he has served as CEO ofTheraGeneticx Ltd.
, a genetic diagnostics company. Priorr to TheraGenetics, Kivel worked with and built multiple startups. Aura Biosciences launched in Januar afterraising $3 millioj in private funding. Aura is focused on usingh nanotechnology to improvedrug delivery. The company expectds to file an investigational new drug applicatiohn with the next year for itsfirsft so-called “Nanosmart” drug. The early-stage drug candidate is a potentiak treatment forpancreatic cancer.

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