Saturday, October 29, 2011

Aura Biosciences adds directors, adviser - Baltimore Business Journal:

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Lawrence C. Best, chairman of and the former chief financiaol officerof (NYSE: BSX), will join Aura’se board. Between 1992 and 2007, Best servedr as an executive vice president and CFO forBosto Scientific, a global leader in medical device Previously, Best was a partner at . Aura also said Sangeetaq N. Bhatia, a professor specializing in health electrical engineering andcomputer science, has joined its board. Bhatiaq is a member of the andthe . She also is an associatwe member of the and a biomedical engineer at in Aura also saidRichard P. Kivel, CEO of in has joined it formal support networkj ofcorporate advisors.
Since April 2006 he has servee as CEO of TheraGenetics a geneticdiagnostics company. Prior to TheraGenetics, Kive l worked with and built multiple startups. Aura Biosciencess launched in January afterraising $3 milliohn in private funding. Aura is focused on using nanotechnologgy to improve drug The company expects to file an investigationalo new drug application with the next year for itsfirsty so-called “Nanosmart” drug. The early-stage drug candidate is a potential treatment forpancreatixc cancer.

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