Dr. Scott Whitcup M.D. serves as Independent Director of the Company. He has also served on the clinical faculty at the UCLA Stein Eye Institute since July 2003. Previously, Dr. Whitcup served in a number of positions at Allergan, Inc., most recently as the executive vice president of research and development and chief scientific officer, from April 2009 to March 2015. Earlier in his career, Dr. Whitcup was the clinical director at the National Eye Institute at the National Institutes of Health. He previously served on the boards of Menlo Therapeutics Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, and Nightstar Therapeutics plc, a gene therapy company and currently serves on a number of private company boards. Dr. Whitcup earned a B.A. from Cornell University and an M.D. from Cornell University Medical College. He completed an internal medicine residency at UCLA and an ophthalmology residency at Harvard University at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. Dr. Whitcup has been chosen to serve on our Board due to his extensive experience in the discovery, development, and commercialization of drug products, his ophthalmologic expertise and his experience serving as a director for public companies.
Scott Whitcup is 60, he's been the Independent Director of Adverum Biotechnologies Inc since 2020. There are 5 older and 13 younger executives at Adverum Biotechnologies Inc. The oldest executive at Adverum Biotechnologies Inc is Richard Spivey, 69, who is the Independent Director.
Scott's mailing address filed with the SEC is C/O ADVERUM BIOTECHNOLOGIES, INC., 100 CARDINAL WAY, REDWOOD CITY, CA, 94063.
Over the last 9 years, insiders at Adverum Biotechnologies Inc have traded over $1,591,374 worth of Adverum Biotechnologies Inc stock and bought 912,973 units worth $4,153,055 . The most active insiders traders include Patrick Machado, Braden Michael Leonard und Thomas Woiwode. On average, Adverum Biotechnologies Inc executives and independent directors trade stock every 40 days with the average trade being worth of $200,186. The most recent stock trade was executed by Braden Michael Leonard on 30 July 2024, trading 85,800 units of ADVM stock currently worth $613,470.
adverum (nasdaq: advm) is a clinical-stage gene therapy company targeting unmet medical needs in serious rare and ocular diseases. we are advancing the development of a robust pipeline of gene therapies that includes product candidates designed to treat rare diseases alpha-1 antitrypsin (a1at) deficiency and hereditary angioedema (hae) as well as wet age-related macular degeneration (wamd). leveraging our next-generation adeno-associated virus (aav)-based directed evolution platform, we generate gene therapies designed to provide durable efficacy by inducing sustained expression of a therapeutic protein.
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