Company: ANIX
Filing Date: 2025-02-06
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001493152-25-005199
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Company: Anixa Biosciences Inc
Filing Date: 2025-02-06
Form: DEF 14A
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 Therapeutics, a private biotechnology company until January 2023. Dr. Kumar served on the board of the American Cancer Society from 2016 to 2022. Dr. Kumar is currently the Chairman of privately held company, EdisonXFC, which he co-founded in April 2023. Dr. Kumar holds an A.B. in Chemistry from Occidental College. After graduate studies at Stanford University and Caltech, he received his Ph.D. from Caltech and completed his post-doctoral training at Harvard University. He has experience in technology driven startups, both at the board of directors and operating levels, in a broad variety of areas including finance, acquisitions, research and development, and marketing, and, as described above, has served as a director and/or officer of various publicly traded companies.

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Dr. Baskies has served on our Board since September 2018. He previously served as a director of the Company from August 2016 until September 2017. Dr. Baskies is a surgical oncologist affiliated with Virtua Health Systems in southern New Jersey, where he specializes in surgical oncology and general surgery, and is Clinical Professor of Surgery at Rowan School of Medicine. He trained at Boston University Medical Center and the Surgery Branch of the National Cancer Institute where his early research involved evaluating the immune status of patients with cancer, and immunotherapy treatment. He has extensive experience in all facets of general surgical and surgical oncologic problems, with special interests in the treatment of breast cancer, gastrointestinal cancers, thyroid cancer, melanoma, and parathyroid disease, and is a co-investigator in several national studies dealing with breast cancer prevention. Dr. Baskies has served as a director of Baudax Bio, Inc., a publicly-held drug development company, since August 2020. He served as Chairman of the New Jersey Governor’s Task Force on Early Detection, Prevention and Treatment of Cancer, having created and chaired the cancer control plan for the state from 2000-2016, and is a member of numerous societies, including the Society of Surgical Oncology, the American Society of Breast Surgeons, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, and the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Baskies has been involved with the American Cancer Society for 43 years. He was awarded the Society’s Silver Chalice Award in 1998 and the Society’s St. George National Award in 2009. He has held leadership positions at many levels of the organization, including