People

Scientific Advisory Board

World-renowned oncology expert, has registered more than 15 of the world’s top cancer drugs, over 35 years in oncology drug development

▪ Former CMO of Celgene where he presided over the registration of drugs including Abraxane, Revlimid, Vidaza, Istodax, and Taxotere

▪ Board member in various biotech companies including Transgene, Halozyme, Celator Pharmaceuticals, and CRO IDDI

▪ Author of more than 70 articles in peer-reviewed

▪ Senior advisor to the board of Quercis Pharma AG and Board Observer.

Former Head of the Laboratory of Neurodegeneration at Pasteur, Montevideo and performing research on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of brain aging

▪ M.D. from the University of the Republic (Uruguay) and Ph.D. from Collège de France

▪ Member of the National Academy of Science of Uruguay and of the Third World Academy of Science

▪ Former President of IIBCE Board of Directors

▪President of the National Council of Science and Technology between 2006-2009

World renowned oncologist, specialist in pancreatic cancer

▪ Professor of Medicine at Cornell Medical School and Chief of the Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Weill Cornell Medicine and New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center

▪ Previously Clinical Director of the Rosenberg Clinical Cancer Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard

▪ Member of the Board of PANCAN

▪ Author of more than 220 articles in the top tier peer-reviewed journals

Expert on nano-sensors for in vivo tumor profiling

Professor at ETH Zürich heading the Responsive Biomedical Systems Lab

▪ Former researcher at MIT on nanosensors for in vivo tumour profiling

Co-founder of MagnebotiX

Board of Directors

Serial entrepreneur for more than 20 years. Started and successfully built/sold more than 10 companies

▪ Authored multiple drug patents and trademarks

▪ Has been studying naturally occurring small molecules as disease prevention agents with an emphasis on flavonoids for 20+ years

▪ Founded and built biotech/pharma business and bundled it into Quercis Pharma AG in 2019

▪ Doctor of Science (hc)

▪ Cardiologist and Former Minister of Health in France and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations

▪ Founder of Unitlife and former chairman of the Executive Board of UNITAID

▪Chairman and CEO, Atanis Biotech AG

▪Prof. Emeritus at Harvard Medical School following 22 years of full professorship in Medicine

▪Immunologist, discovered Calcium Ion Channel

Managing Director of iXLife, a private investment fund with12 active healthcare investments

▪Board Member in Biotech and Big Pharma

▪ Former Chief Strategy Officer Vifor Pharma where he was driving the growth strategy, creating value through in-house development and a series of licensing deals & acquisitions.

Board member in various biotech companies including 4TEEN4, Adrenomed and HICT

25+ years of experience as pharma executive at AMGEN and Vifor Pharma in commercial, strategic and R&D roles

Involved in selling VIFOR to CSL for $11.75Bn in December 2021

Board Observers

▪ Former Chairman of Quercis

▪ 25 years of experience in strategy consulting & investment management

▪ Partner and Managing Director at Cevian Capital for 12 years with 7 years at McKinsey’s Corporate Finance practice

▪ Seven years at McKinsey’s Corporate Finance practice, ultimately as Associate Principal

▪CEO of Spectrum Value Management

▪Board Member at Holcim, CANCON

▪Board member in various biotech companies including Transgene, Halozyme, Celator Pharmaceuticals, and CRO IDDI

▪Chairman of Scientific Advisory Board

Executive Team

Serial entrepreneur for more than 20 years. Started and successfully built/sold more than 10 companies

▪ Authored multiple drug patents and trademarks

▪ Has been studying naturally occurring small molecules as disease prevention agents with an emphasis on flavonoids for 20+ years

▪ Founded and built biotech/pharma business and bundled it into Quercis Pharma AG in 2019

▪ Doctor of Science (hc)

▪ Over 40 years in natural products and pharmaceutical development specializing in flavonoid research and clinical program support.

▪ Leads process optimization for API manufacturing. Holds multiple patents for flavonoid compounds and applications. Champions innovative approaches in translational medicine to advance global health initiatives.

▪ Over 35 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry

▪ Former Chief Medical Officer and Head of R&D at Vifor Pharma

▪ Previous Head of Clinical Research at Novartis OTC

▪ 20 years at Bayer in R&D

 Medical Doctor

▪ Over 28 years of clinical development experience in clinical and safety operations, regulatory submissions, company governance, and quality management systems

▪ Served as medical leader and safety leader overseeing complex development phases of innovative products across multiple therapeutic indications in both Europe and in the U.S.

▪ Co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer of an international CRO specialized in the design and execution of effective drug development plans.

▪ Medical Doctor

▪ Over 20 years of experience in senior leadership positions in the nutraceutical and pharmaceutical fields

▪ Former General Manager for Catalent

▪ Former CEO of Nutravail which was sold to private-equity backed Bettera Brands

▪ Part of leadership team that sold Bettera Brands to Catalent for $1B

▪ Practiced law as a commercial litigator before transitioning to a business role