Joseph M. Patti, Ph.D.

Joseph M. Patti, Ph.D., has served as a member of the board of directors since the consummation of the Merger in May 2019. Since February 2018, he has been the President of JP Biotech Advisors, Inc., which provides strategic growth and drug development advice to emerging biotechnology companies. From June 2022 until June 2023, Dr. Patti was President and Chief Executive Officer and director of Evecxia Therapeutics, Inc. Dr. Patti was Executive Chairman of AgilVax, Inc. from November 2018 until August 2019, when he was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer and director, until July 2021. From November 2012, Dr. Patti served as Aviragen Therapeutics, Inc.’s Executive Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy until October 2014, when he was appointed the company’s President, Chief Executive Officer and director. He served in those roles until February 2018, when Aviragen merged with Vaxart, Inc. Before joining Aviragen, Dr. Patti co-founded Inhibitex, Inc. in 1994 and served as its Chief Scientific Officer and Senior Vice President of Research and Development from 2007 until Bristol Myers Squibb acquired it in February 2012. He also served as its Chief Scientific Officer and Vice President of Research and Development from 2005 to 2007 and as Vice President of Preclinical Development. Dr. Patti was a director of Inhibitex from 1998 to 2005. Before co-founding Inhibitex, Dr. Patti was an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M’s Institute of Biosciences and Technology and served on the faculty at the University of Texas Health Science Center Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Dr. Patti received a B.S. in Microbiology from the University of Pittsburgh, a M.S.P.H. from the University of Miami School of Medicine, and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Patti was a director of SciStem Therapeutics, Inc., a privately held biotechnology company, from 2012 to 2015.