Lineage Cell Therapeutics, Inc. Announces Appointment of Anula Jayasuriya to its Board of Directors
May 05, 2021 at 11:00 am
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Lineage Cell Therapeutics, Inc. announced the appointment of Anula Jayasuriya, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., to the Company’s Board of Directors, effective May 4, 2021. Dr. Jayasuriya is a successful healthcare private equity executive and venture capitalist with extensive clinical, industry, entrepreneurial, and investment experience. Dr. Jayasuriya is the Founder & Managing Director of EXXclaim Capital, an early-stage venture fund focused on catalyzing innovation, entrepreneurship and investment in Women’s Health, and a Co-founder of Evolvence India Life Science Fund (EILSF), the first fund in India to focus exclusively on healthcare and invest in Indian pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and contract services companies.
Lineage Cell Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing allogeneic cell therapies for unmet medical needs. The Companyâs programs are based on its cell-based technology platform and associated development and manufacturing capabilities. From this platform, the Company designs, develops, manufactures, and tests specialized human cells with anatomical and physiological functions. Its neuroscience focused pipeline includes OpRegen, a retinal pigment epithelial cell therapy in phase II a development, for the treatment of geographic atrophy secondary to age-related macular degeneration; OPC1, an oligodendrocyte progenitor cell therapy in phase I/II a development for the treatment of spinal cord injuries; ANP1, an auditory neuronal progenitor cell therapy for the potential treatment of auditory neuropathy; PNC1, a photoreceptor neural cell therapy for the potential treatment of vision loss due to photoreceptor dysfunction or damage; and RND1.