Company: SMNR
Filing Date: 2025-04-21
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-087342
Chunk: 596

Company: Semnur Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-21
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 596
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 as a member of Scilex’s Scientific Advisory Board since August 2021 and previously served as a member of Celularity Inc.’s (Nasdaq: CELU) Scientific Advisory Board from September 2020 to January 2023. Dr. Chun completed his M.D. and Ph.D. at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. His neurosurgical residency was completed at the University of California at San Francisco, followed by specialization in the discipline of complex and minimally invasive spine surgery at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Chun is board certified and specializes in complex and minimally invasive spine surgery as well as artificial discs. While a member of the Columbia University faculty from June 1995 to June 1997, Dr. Chun worked in the field of biotechnology. He has received many honors including Medical Research Fellowships from the NIH, working with the late Nobel Laureate Marshall Nirenberg. He received his Ph.D. with Richard Axel, 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 Dr. Chun’s extensive scientific background and business experience qualify him to serve on the New Semnur Board.

Dorman Followwill. Upon consummation of the Business Combination, Mr. Followwill will serve as a member of the New Semnur Board. Mr. Followwill has served as a member of Scilex’s board of directors since November 2022. Prior to that, he served as a director of Scilex, Inc. from April 2022 to November 2022, as a director of Sorrento from October 2017 to April 2024 and as its lead independent director from August 2020 to April 2024. From 2016 to September 2020, Mr. Followwill was Senior Partner of Transformational Health at Frost & Sullivan, a business consulting firm involved in market research and analysis, growth strategy consulting and corporate training across multiple industries. Prior to that time, he served in various roles at Frost & Sullivan, including Partner on the Executive Committee managing the P&L of the business in Europe, Israel and Africa, and Partner overseeing the Healthcare and Life Sciences business in North America, since initially joining Frost & Sullivan to help found the Consulting practice in January 1988. Mr. Followwill has more than 30 years of organizational leadership and management consulting experience, having worked on hundreds of consulting projects across all major regions and across