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Michael Cola joined Medgenics as President and CEO in September 2013. Prior to joining Medgenics, Mr. Cola served as President of Specialty Pharmaceuticals at Shire plc, a global specialty pharmaceutical company, from 2007 until April 2012. He joined Shire in 2005 as EVP of Global Therapeutic Business Units and Portfolio Management. Prior to joining Shire, he was with Safeguard Scientifics, Inc., a growth capital provider to life sciences and technology companies, where he served as President of the Life Sciences Group. While at Safeguard, Mr. Cola served as Chairman and CEO of Clarient, Inc., a cancer diagnostics company subsequently acquired by GE Healthcare, and as Chairman of Laureate Pharma, Inc., a full-service contract manufacturing organization serving research-based biologics companies. Prior to Safeguard Scientifics, Mr. Cola held senior positions in product development and commercialization at AstraMerck, a top 20 U.S. pharmaceutical company, and at AstraZeneca, a global biopharmaceutical company. Mr. Cola received a B.A. in biology and physics from Ursinus College and an M.S. in biomedical science from Drexel University. He serves on the Board of Directors of Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc., Sage Therapeutics, Ben Franklin Technology Partners and Pennsylvania BIO, the statewide association representing the bioscience community. He also currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Philadelphia.

Gregory A. Demopulos, M.D. is one of our founders and has served as our President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors since June 1994. Prior to founding Omeros, Dr. Demopulos completed his residency in orthopedic surgery at Stanford University and his fellowship training at Duke University. Dr. Demopulos received his M.D. from the Stanford University School of Medicine and his B.S. from Stanford University.

As a senior executive with 20+ years of sell- and buy- side business and corporate development experience, my career encompasses roles in therapeutics, biotech, genomics, medical devices, and pharmacy benefits. During my tenure at Pfizer, I completed more than 2 dozen acquisition, co-development, and licensing deals ranging from $300M to $7B. Later at Foundation Medicine, I led the $1B sale of their genomics testing to Roche, and earlier played a leadership role in Medco’s $29B sale to Express Scripts. I have worked extensively within R&D environments and launched 3 $1B+ therapeutic products in the hypertension and antibiotics categories. Additionally, I have been the CEO of early stage start-ups, building the funding, commercialization, and exit strategy for therapeutics companies in the CNS and autoimmune disease space.Currently, as CEO of Cognition Therapeutics, I am driving Series C fundraising effort. With multiple phase 2 clinical trials well under way for the Alzheimer’s research and more than a hundred million dollars in dedicated funding, I am repositioning the company to broaden the focus on our science and other CNS clinical conditions. I am pleased to lead a company dedicated to halting neurological disease processes and restoring and preserving the building blocks of brain health and function and look forward to sharing our progress here.