Peter Fong, M.D., Ph.D. has served as one of our directors since September 2025. Following the Annual Meeting, Dr. Fong will serve as the Chairman of the Board if he is elected at the Annual Meeting. Dr. Fong has more than 20 years of scientific, venture capital, and biopharma leadership experience. He currently serves as Partner and President at RTW. In addition to his broad management across the firm, he also leads RTW s Asset Development & Financing division. This team is responsible for RTW s company creation efforts and its focus on building next-generation biotech firms capable of bringing life-saving medicines to patients. He is Chairman of Prolium Biosciences and Yarrow Biotechnologies and an executive board member of Corxel Pharmaceuticals, each of which was founded by RTW under his leadership. Prior to joining RTW, Dr. Fong worked at Flagship Pioneering in Cambridge as a Senior Principal on the innovation team, where he led the creation of four Flagship-backed companies. Earlier in his career, Dr. Fong held key roles in business development and company building. At Genentech, he worked in oncology business development leading a partnership with BioNTech on mRNA-based personalized cancer vaccines, at Memorial Sloan-Kettering leading its New Ventures & Business Development unit, and as Co-Founder and VP of R&D at Carigent Therapeutics, which was spun out of Yale University. He also worked as a chemist for General Electric between his undergraduate and graduate education. Dr. Fong earned a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Yale University, where he was subsequently a James Hudson Brown, Alexander Brown Coxe Postdoctoral Fellow. He also holds a BS in Biochemistry from Indiana University. We believe that Dr. Fong is qualified to serve on our Board due to his years of experience in, and extensive knowledge of, the biopharmaceutical industry.