Organovo Appoints Tamar D. Howson to Board of Directors
SAN DIEGO, June 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
Ms. Howson is a seasoned business development executive within the pharmaceutical industry, having formerly served as senior vice president of both Bristol-Meyers Squibb and SmithKline Beecham. Ms. Howson currently serves as a corporate business development and strategy consultant to biopharmaceutical companies and she also serves as a director at Idenix,
"We are delighted to have Tamar Howson join our Board. Her pharmaceutical industry business development experience will be invaluable as
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"It has been a pleasure to serve on the
With the addition of Ms. Howson to the Board of Directors, and with Mr. Stern stepping down, the Company now has a majority of directors classified as independent and has three independent directors serving on the audit committee, each of which is a requirement for up-listing to either NASDAQ or NYSE.
About Organovo Holdings, Inc.
Organovo designs and creates functional, three-dimensional human tissues for medical research and therapeutic applications. The Company is collaborating with pharmaceutical and academic partners to develop human biological disease models in three dimensions. These 3D human tissues have the potential to accelerate the drug discovery process, enabling treatments to be developed faster and at lower cost. In addition to numerous scientific publications, our technology has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, The Economist, and numerous others. Organovo is changing the shape of medical research and practice. Learn more at www.organovo.com.
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