Dr. Tucker is a seasoned, Boston-based executive who has played an important role building a number of successful startups. He co-founded and took public Willow Biosciences (CSE:WLLW) and Stem Cell Therapeutics (now Nasdaq/TSX: TRIL). As well, he had important executive roles at SolAeroMed and Reserverlogix. In each of these companies he was either a VP or CEO, and raised significant private financing. As a resident of both the US and Canada, Joe has the broad connections that are vital for securing the necessary funds to move Pemi31 Therapeutics forward into the clinic.

Dr. Gagnon is a knowledgeable and respected executive leader with many years of strategic leadership experience and management excellence. She works within important local, national and international networks, bringing interpersonal skills, interdisciplinary content knowledge, a health professional perspective, and strategic, operational, governance and financial expertise to achieve results. Michelle’s strengths in research, knowledge mobilization and innovation are strong assets for Pemi31 Therapeutics.

Professor Kausik Ray received his medical education (MB ChB, 1991) at the University of Birmingham Medical School, his MD (2004) at the University of Sheffield, a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School and finally an MPhil in epidemiology (2007) from the University of Cambridge. Kausik Ray is currently Professor of Public Heath, Deputy Director of Imperial Clinical Trials Unit and Head of Commercial Trials within the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, School of Public Health, Imperial College London. As well, he is a Consultant Cardiologist and Chief Clinical Officer and Head of Trials – “Discover Now”, as well as NIHR ARC National Lead of Cardiovascular Disease, and the President-Elect of the European Atherosclerosis Society.

Professor Ray has either been the National Lead Investigator, Principal Investigator, or served on committees for several major medical trials, as well as international registries and is currently involved in 8 ongoing trials in lipids and diabetes and the PI for ORION 1, 3, 11 assessing PCSK9 inhibition through RNA interference.

Professor Ray has an H index of 76, an i10 of 180 and nearly 75,000 citations for his work in journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, JAMA, European Heart Journal, Circulation and JACC. Key original contributions which have influenced European and American guidelines include demonstrating the early benefits of statin therapy post ACS, the impact of more/less intensive glycaemic control on CVD and the risks/benefits of aspirin therapy in primary prevention. Recently, his work on statins and diabetes risk led to a global label change for statins by the FDA and EMEA. Currently Professor Ray leads the EAS FH Studies collaboration which is the first global registry of FH which includes 68 countries and 59,000 cases, as well as being the Senior PI for the TOGETHER study looking at cardiometabolic risk in the vascular health checks in 250,000 people in London.