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Longeveron Announces the Appointment of Ursula Ungaro to its Board of Directors
MIAMI, May 25, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Longeveron Inc. (NASDAQ: LGVN) ("Longeveron" or "Company"), a clinical stage biotechnology company developing cellular
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[{"type":"text","content":"MIAMI, May 25, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Longeveron Inc. (NASDAQ: LGVN) (\"Longeveron\" or \"Company\"), a clinical stage biotechnology company developing cellular therapies for chronic, aging-related and life-threatening conditions, announced today that Ursula Ungaro will be joining its Board of Directors as of June 1, 2021. Ms. Ungaro was appointed to serve on the federal U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in 1992 after being nominated by President George H.W. Bush and being confirmed by the U.S. Senate. After 29 years of federal service, Ms. Ungaro has announced that she will be retiring from the bench on May 31, 2021. In her time on the federal bench, she presided over and ruled in numerous major civil and criminal cases in legal domains ranging from constitutional principles, equal rights, securities issues, and the use of non-embryonic stem cell therapies, amongst many others. In addition to joining Longeveron’s Board, Ms. Ungaro will also be joining, as a Partner, the prestigious law firm Boies Schiller Flexner LLP. “We are exceptionally fortunate and pleased to welcome Ms. Ungaro to our Board of Directors and look forward to drawing from her varied expertise after many years in the judiciary and in private practice to help guide Longeveron at this exciting time in its development,” said Geoff Green, CEO of Longeveron. “Ms. Ungaro’s tremendous reputation, respect of all her peers, and wealth of experience, will prove invaluable as we continue to build Longeveron and advance our cellular therapies through clinical development to commercialization.” Following her graduation with honors from the University of Florida School of Law in 1975 (one of just 17 women in a class of about 250), Ms. Ungaro practiced law in Miami, Florida where in 1981 she became a partner in Tew, Critchlow, Sonberg, Traum & Friedbauer, P.A. (later merged into Finley, Kumble, Wagner, Heine, Underberg, Manley, Myerson & Casey, a national law firm). She subsequently joined Sparber, Shevin, Shapo & Heilbronner, a prestigious local law firm. She practiced law mainly in the area of complex commercial litigation, including in the areas of securities, corporate and tax law. From 1987 to 1992, Ms. Ungaro served as a trial judge on the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of the State of Florida. She has authored published articles in the areas of adm...