Company: CERO
Filing Date: 2025-05-27
Form Type: POS AM
Source: 0001213900-25-047469
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Company: CERO THERAPEUTICS HOLDINGS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-05-27
Form: POS AM
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 a member of the board of directors of OncBioMune from June 2020 until September 2023. Mr. Kucharchuk holds a B.A. in Business and an MBA in Finance from Tulane University. 128 Kristen Piercehas served as the Chief Development Officer since October 2024. Dr. Pierce has over 20 years of oncology experience, leading nonclinical and early clinical stage projects. Prior to joining CERo, Dr. Pierce was Vice President, Translational Medicine at Pionyr Immunotherapeutics from September 2021 to June 2023. Prior to that, she served as Executive Director, Asset Team Leader at Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) where she led the late nonclinical and early clinical development of several antibody and small molecules in oncology. Dr. Pierce received her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in Pharmacology and Toxicology and spent four years as a postdoc at Duke University in the laboratory of the Nobel Prize winning scientist, Dr. Robert J. Lefkowitz. Dr. Pierce received her B.A. from Bates College. Directors Brian G. Atwoodpreviously served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CERo from February 2024 to September 2024, and previously served as Chairman of PBAX from October 2021 until the closing of the Business Combination in February 2024. Mr. Atwood serves as a Managing Director for Versant Ventures, a healthcare-focused venture capital firm that he co-founded in 1999. In 2015, Mr. Atwood co-founded Cell Design Labs, Inc., a biotechnology company focused on developing human cell engineering technology for the treatment of multiple diseases, including cancer, where he served as President and Chief Executive Officer until 2017, when it was acquired by Gilead Sciences. Mr. Atwood has served on several boards of directors including Atreca, Inc. (where he served as chairman) from December 2013 until April 2024, Clovis Oncology, Inc. from April 2009 until July 2023, Immune Design Corp. from May 2008 until June 2016 (acquired by Merck in 2019), Veracyte, Inc., from its founding in 2008 until December 2016, OpGen Inc., from July 2007 until December 2017, Five Prime Therapeutics, from 2002 until March 2016 (acquired by Amgen 2021),