Humacyte, Inc. announced the addition of pharmaceutical industry veteran Dr. John P. Bamforth and distinguished health system and academic physician Dr. Keith Anthony (Tony) Jones to the Company?s Board of Directors. John P. Bamforth, PhD has served as Executive Director of Eshelman Innovation, a translational innovation institute at the University of North Carolina?Chapel Hill, since 2019. Prior to joining Eshelman Innovation, Dr. Bamforth spent 30 years at Eli Lilly and Company (?Lilly?) until his retirement in 2018, in an array of roles primarily focused on brand development and commercialization.

In 2012, he was appointed Chief Marketing Officer for Lilly?s multi-billion-dollar U.S. business and in 2016 he became Chief Marketing Officer for Lilly?s global business. In 2017, Dr. Bamforth co-founded the Ciara Arts and Sciences Foundation dedicated to enabling disadvantaged youth to attend college. Dr. Bamforth holds a BPharm from the University of Bath and a Ph.D. and D.Sc.

(Hon.) from Aston University in England. Keith Anthony Jones, M.D., has served as the Chief Physician Executive of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (?UAB?) Health System since 2017. Dr. Jones has served as the Maurice S. Albin Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at the University of Alabama Heersink School of Medicine (?UABHSOM?) since 2019.

Since 2017, Dr. Jones has also served as Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs of UABHSOM. Since 2017, Dr. Jones has served as President of the University of Alabama Health Services Foundation, which is the Faculty Practice Plan for UABHSOM and employs approximately 1,400 academic physicians. From 2006 to 2017, Dr. Jones served as Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine for UABHSOM and Chief of Anesthesiology Services for UAB Hospital.

He is a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, where he has served on and led numerous committees. Dr. Jones holds a B.S. in Microbiology from the University of Alabama and an M.D. from the UABHSOM, and completed his anesthesiology residency and postdoctoral fellowship at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine.