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People

Team & Leadership

Leadership

A Lean, World-Class Team

Built from leading academic and biopharma institutions, the BioMimetix team brings experience spanning clinical development, regulatory strategy, translational science, and commercialization.

Management Team
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Greg Kunst

Executive Chairman

CEO of Valitor and Special Envoy & Senior Advisor to the Permanent Observer Mission to the United Nations for Water and Sanitation in Africa. Board member at CynosBio, Feliqs, SIME Diagnostics, and Pr3vent. Former CEO of Aurion Biotech. Raised over $250M in venture capital funding.

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James Crapo

MD | Founder | CEO

Prior Chair of Medicine at National Jewish Health, inventor on key patents, leader of COPDGene and BioMimetix.

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David Silberstein

PhD | COO / VP R&D

Pharma leadership in genomics, global launch of Symbicort/Pulmicort.

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David MacLeod

PhD | CSO

Computational biology, biochemistry of brain diseases, radiation therapy physics, clinical trial design.

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Sara Penchev

VP of Clinical Operations

Clinical trial design, regulatory filings, creation and support of investigative clinical networks.

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Robert Hellewell

JD | CBO

Business strategies, legal and regulatory matters, contracts, antitrust & trade regulation.

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Robert Ogden

CFO

Controller, financial reporting to tax and regulatory authorities, budget planning for public and private companies.

Key Advisors & Consultants
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Shayne Gad

PhD | DABT | VP Safety & Regulatory

Scholarly publications on toxicology, numerous successful regulatory filings including IND, NDA, BDA, ANDA, and 510K.

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John Wetzel

PhD | Director of CMC & Manufacturing

Drug design, GMP methods, contributed to development of two FDA-approved drugs. Expertise from Synaptic, Lundbeck, and Wetzel Consulting.

BioMimetix

A clinical-stage oncology company developing BMX-001, a first-in-class manganese porphyrin. Preclinically, BMX-001 enhances tumor response to radiation and chemotherapy while protecting normal tissue; clinically, it has demonstrated encouraging survival, normal-tissue protection, tolerability, and function across clinical programs.

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