Jack Reich

Dr. Jack Reich has served as a director since May 2020. Dr. Reich’s career spans over 35 years in the pharmaceutical, biotechnologies, and venture capital industries. He began his career at Bristol-Myers International. While working at Bristol-Myers, Dr. Reich pursued his Ph.D. His dissertation was the first in the area of international drug development and registration. Since 1987, Dr. Reich has been involved in more than 30 medical and biotech companies. He was a founding officer of Gensia where he served as Vice President, Regulatory Affairs and Quality Operations, and co-founded the first gene therapy company, Viagene, where he served as Vice President Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance. Both companies went public. Gensia soon became the second-largest market cap biotech on NASDAQ, and Viagene was acquired by Chiron. He also co-founded the first cardiovascular gene therapy company, Collateral Therapeutics, which he took public on NASDAQ while Chairman and CEO. Subsequently, Collateral was sold to Schering AG in 2002. In 2009, Dr. Reich co-founded Renova Therapeutics, where he served as CEO until 2019.