Elazer Edelman, M.D., Ph.D. has served on our board of directors since March 2021 and serves as the Chair of our technology committee. Dr. Edelman has served as the Edward J. Poitras Professor in Medical Engineering and Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology which he joined in 1993, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School which he joined in 1989, and Senior Attending Physician in the coronary care unit at the Brigham and Women s Hospital in Boston with which he has been associated since 1984. He and his laboratory have pioneered basic findings in vascular biology and the development and assessment of biotechnology. Dr. Edelman has directed the Massachusetts Institute of Technology s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science and Clinical Research Center as well as the Harvard-MIT Biomedical Engineering Center, all dedicated to applying the rigors of the physical sciences to elucidate fundamental biologic processes and mechanisms of disease. He is the founder and has served on the board of director of Autus Valve Technologies, Inc. since 2019, BioDevek, Inc. since 2015, and PanTher Therapeutics, LLC since 2014. Dr. Edelman completed internal medicine training and clinical fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine at the Brigham and Women s Hospital and a research fellowship at the Department of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Edelman received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and his Ph.D. in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics, M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and B.S. in Bioelectrical Engineering and Applied Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Edelman s qualifications to serve on our board of directors include his medical and biomedical engineering background and his extensive scientific advisory experience and co-founding of a number of technology companies.