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Dr. Amit Kumar, ITUS's Vice-Chairman and Anixa's Executive Chairman, said, "Our goal is to create a Scientific Advisory Board consisting of world renowned scientists and distinguished experts in the cancer field. Mike is a brilliant scientist with many years of experience working with solid tumors, and has co-founded and led several early stage companies with break through cancer technologies."
Dr. Shepard commented: "I am pleased to join Anixa's SAB. Early tumor detection can provide tremendous benefit to patients, especially to the millions of patients who are in remission and at high risk of recurrence. I am very intrigued by Anixa's approach to cancer detection, and I am looking forward to working with Dr. Kumar and contributing to the effort."
Dr. Shepard obtained his Ph.D. in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. He is a former Damon-Runyon Cancer Fellow. After Genentech and Herceptin, among other activities, Dr. Shepard cofounded Canji, Inc. (acquired by Schering-Plough); NewBiotics, (acquired by Kiadis Pharma), and Receptor Biologix, (acquired by Symphogen) All of these companies were working in oncology. Most recently Dr. Shepard was the Chief Science Officer of Halozyme Therapeutics where he was the scientific leader responsible for approval of subcutaneous Rituxan and subcutaneous Herceptin, both of which will untether patients from infusion clinics. Dr. Shepard also lead the scientific team to bring Halozyme's current drug candidate through Phase 2 clinical trials and also developed the companion diagnostic, enabling the identification of patients that will respond well to the drug.
Anixa is developing blood tests for the early detection of solid tumor based cancers.
ITUS Corporation
ITUS funds, develops, acquires, and licenses emerging technologies. The Company's subsidiary, Anixa Diagnostics Corporation, is developing non-invasive, cancer screening tests. Additional information is available at www.ITUScorp.com.
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