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Eterna Therapeutics Appoints Biotech Industry Veterans Brant Binder and Richard Wagner, Ph.D. to Board of Directors
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Eterna Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: ERNA) (“Eterna” or the “Company”), a life science company committed to
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[{"type":"text","content":"CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Eterna Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: ERNA) (“Eterna” or the “Company”), a life science company committed to realizing the potential of mRNA cell engineering to provide patients with transformational new medicines, today announced the appointment of Brant Binder and Richard Wagner, Ph.D. to its Board of Directors. Concurrently, Charles Cherington and Nicholas Singer have stepped down from the Board. “We are delighted to welcome Brant and Richard to our Board. Both bring a wealth of industry expertise, including founding and leading biotechnology companies with a proven history of delivering value for their stakeholders,” said Matt Angel, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer and President of Eterna. “We look forward to working together to drive Eterna’s future growth.” Brant Binder is a seasoned leader and entrepreneur with more than 25 years of strategic expertise building and growing biotechnology companies. Mr. Binder began his career in venture capital and private equity investment at Trust Company of the West. He received a B.S.F.S. in International Relations from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and an MBA from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Richard Wagner, Ph.D., is a biotechnology entrepreneur with more than 30 years of experience creating and managing drug discovery innovations. He is an expert in the invention and industrialization of novel technologies to accelerate the discovery of small molecule and biologic therapeutic products. Dr. Wagner received a B.S. in biochemistry from Trinity College and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Brown University. Since 2007, Mr. Binder and Dr. Wagner have worked together to exploit innovations in the biotechnology field. They recently co-founded and operate Bonito Biosciences, an oligonucleotide therapeutics company. Prior to this, they co-founded ZebiAI Therapeutics, alongside Google, to pioneer the use of machine learning in drug discovery; they sold ZebiAI to Relay Therapeutics, Inc. in 2021. Earlier, they launched X-BODY Biosciences, which developed antibody and T-cell receptor domains for CAR-T applications, and was acquired by Juno Therapeutics. Additionally, they launched X-Chem, Inc., applying DNA encoded libraries of small molecules, which resulted in more than 70 drug disc...