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HOUSTON, May 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ AuraVax Therapeutics, Inc. (Auravax), a biotech company developing novel intranasal therapeutics and vaccines to help patients defeat debilitating respiratory diseases, including COVID-19, today announced the formation of its inaugural Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), consisting of leading experts in the fields of biology, vaccines and intranasal drug delivery. The SAB will guide and advise the company in its ongoing development of proprietary therapeutics and vaccines for respiratory diseases.
The SAB is chaired by George M. Church, Ph.D. and includes Stephen Albert Johnston from Calviri, Inc and Mei X. Wu, Ph.D. from Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School.
April 26, 2021
Kenneth Lange, Rosenfeld Professor of Computational Genetics in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has been elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences, in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Lange, who is also a professor in the departments of human genetics and statistics, has written four advanced textbooks and published more than 200 scientific papers in the areas of genetic epidemiology, population genetics, membrane physiology, demography, oncology, medical imaging, stochastic processes and optimization theory. Many of his landmark papers predate by a decade or more the current flood of biological applications of hidden Markov chains, Markov chain Monte Carlo and high-dimensional optimization, which are used to analyze patterns in data and can have predictive value.