Company: MLTX
Filing Date: 2025-04-22
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-014923
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Company: MoonLake Immunotherapeutics
Filing Date: 2025-04-22
Form: DEF 14A
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 Dr. Ramnik Xavier has served as a director of our Company since April 2022. Since 2018, Dr. Xavier has served as a core institute member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where he also serves as Director of the Klarman Cell Observatory. Dr. Xavier has served as Director of the Broad Institute’s Immunology Program since 2019 and Co-Director of the Broad’s Infectious Disease and Microbiome Program since 2016. Since 2013, Dr. Xavier has served as a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, where he is currently the Kurt J. Isselbacher Professor of Medicine. In addition, since 2018 he has served as Director of the Center for Computational and Integrative Biology and as a member in the Department of Molecular Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital. He has also served as co-director of the Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics at MIT since 2014. Dr. Xavier holds an M.B. Ch.B. (Hons.) from the Godfrey Huggins School of Medicine, University of Zimbabwe and a Ph.D. from the University of Groningen (Netherlands). We believe Dr. Xavier is qualified to serve on our Board because of his extensive biomedical research experience and research specializations in the characterization of genetic variants, chemical biology approaches to cellular disease and computational approaches to diseases and treatments. Class III Director Nominees Dr. Jorge Santos da Silva has served as Chief Executive Officer and a director of our Company since April 2022. He co-founded MoonLake AG and served as its Chief Executive Officer from July 2021 until the Merger Closing. Dr. Santos da Silva also serves as a professor and Board Advisor at the School of Medicine at the Minho University (Portugal). Prior to co-founding MoonLake AG, Dr. Santos da Silva was at McKinsey & Company, Inc., a consulting firm, from September 2007 to June 2021, where he served as Senior Partner and led the Pharmaceutical & Medical Products Practice, the Biotech group and the Biosimilars group and advised international biopharmaceutical and biotechnology companies on corporate and business-unit strategy, commercial operating models, research and development, organizational design, mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures. Dr. Santos da Silva was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and holds a Ph.D. in Neuronal Cell Biology from the University of Turin (Italy) and a B.Sc. in Molecular Biology from