Company: SCLXW
Filing Date: 2025-05-16
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-073612
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Company: Scilex Holding Co
Filing Date: 2025-05-16
Form: DEF 14A
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 a recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize. In honor of his stem cell research, he received the NIH Individual National Research Service Award. We believe that Mr. Chun’s experience as a member of our Scientific Advisory Board, extensive scientific background and business experience qualify him to serve on our Board.

Yue Alexander Wu, Ph.D.Dr. Wu has served as a member of our Board since September 22, 2023. Dr. Wu is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cothera Bioscience, Inc., a translation medicine and precision therapeutics company developing cancer therapeutics for previously undruggable targets. He was previously President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Strategy Officer of Crown Bioscience International, a leading global drug discovery and development solutions company, which he co-founded in 2006, until 2017. From 2004 to 2006, Dr. Wu was Chief Business Officer of Starvax International Inc. in Beijing, China, a biotechnology company focusing on oncology and infectious diseases. From 2001 to 2004, Dr. Wu was a venture capitalist with Burrill & Company where he was head of Asian Activities. Dr. Wu has served as a director of CASI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: CASI) since June 2013 and Sorrento from August 2016to April 2024. Dr. Wu received his Ph.D. in Molecular Cell Biology and his M.B.A. from University of California at Berkeley. He earned an M.S. in Biochemistry from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and his B.S. in Biochemistry from Fudan University in Shanghai, China. We believe that Dr. Wu’s scientific background and business experience in various roles in the life sciences industry qualify him to serve on our Board.

Annu Navani, M.D.Dr. Navani has served as a member of our Board since July 21, 2024. Dr. Navani founded and has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Comprehensive Spine and Sports Center from 2013 until 2022 as a leader in interventional and multidisciplinary spine, musculoskeletal and orthopedic care. She has also been serving as the Chief Medical Officer at Boomerang Healthcare since May 2022. Over the last decade, she has scaled a solo practice to a large multispecialty group practice with more than twenty service lines that operate via multiple state-of-the-art centers in Northern and Southern California. Since