Seung Suh Hong, Ph.D. has served as Chief Executive Officer and Institutional Head of Daewoong Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., a pharmaceutical company, since June 2025. Dr. Hong has served as a consultant to a number of biopharmaceutical companies since March 2019, including through MediRapha, a consulting firm for which he was the Chief Executive Officer. Previously, Dr. Hong served as Vice Chairman of the board of directors, Chief Scientific Officer and Chief Operating Officer of CentricsBio, Inc., a biotechnology company focused on immunotherapeutics, from January 2025 to May 2025; as Chief Executive Officer of Rophibio, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company from March 2023 to December 2024 and as its Senior Advisor from February 2022 to March 2023; as President and Chief Operating Officer of CELLemedy, a biopharmaceutical start-up company, from January 2021 to February 2023; and as Senior Advisor for Novelgen, a biopharmaceutical company, from April 2020 to February 2023, in South Korea. From April 2002 to March 2021, Dr. Hong served in various capacities at Celltrion Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, including as Senior Consultant at Celltrion Healthcare from February 2020 to March 2021; as President and Chief Executive Officer of Celltrion Healthcare Japan from August 2016 to January 2019; as President and Chief Executive Officer of Celltrion Healthcare from November 2014 to December 2015; and as President of Research and Development and Global Business Development from April 2002 to November 2014; Dr. Hong also served as Director at Sam Yang Corporation, a food and pharmaceutical company from April 1981 to April 2002. Dr. Hong received a B.S. in Agricultural Chemistry, an M.S. in Industrial Enzymology, and a Ph.D. in Enzymology and Fermentation from Seoul National University. Dr. Hong also participated in post-doctoral studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Hong has significant executive leadership, operations and strategy, research, medical technology development and life sciences industry experience. We believe that Dr. Hong is qualified to serve on our board of directors for these reasons.