Mark Currie joined our board of directors in April 2019. Dr. Currie has been a partner of Iaso Ventures, LP, an early-stage healthcare venture capital firm, since January 2024. Dr. Currie was previously the chair of the scientific advisory board of Cyclerion Therapeutics, Inc., or Cyclerion, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, from January 2021 to September 2023. Prior to that, Dr. Currie served as Cyclerion’s president and chief scientific officer from April 2019 to December 2020. Prior to joining Cyclerion, Dr. Currie served as senior vice president, chief scientific officer and president of research and development at Ironwood from 2002 to April 2019. Prior to joining Ironwood, Dr. Currie directed cardiovascular and central nervous system disease research as vice president of discovery research at Sepracor, Inc. and initiated, built and led discovery pharmacology and also served as director of arthritis and inflammation at Monsanto Company. Dr. Currie currently serves on the board of directors of Antag Therapeutics ApS, Science Exchange, Inc. and Sea Pharmaceuticals, LLC, each of which is a privately held company. Dr. Currie also chairs the scientific advisory boards of Wild Bioscience Ltd. and Tisento Therapeutics, Inc. Dr. Currie earned a B.S. in biology from the University of South Alabama and holds a Ph.D. in cell biology from the Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University.