SUMMIT THERAPEUTICS INC (SMMT)
Sector: Health Care
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
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Sector: Health Care
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Director information for SMMT
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
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| SMMT | Co-Founder and Executive Board Member of Cellanome; Director | 57 | [] | [] | 2026 |
Biography sourced from the proxy statement filing.
Mostafa Ronaghi, age 57, has served as a member of our Board of Directors since April 2024. Dr. Ronaghi is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Cellanome. Prior to founding Cellanome, he was Chief Technology Officer, Senior Vice President, and member of the Executive Leadership Team at Illumina, Inc. (Nasdaq: ILMN) from 2008 to 2021. While at Illumina, in 2016, Dr. Ronaghi co-founded GRAIL, a next-gen liquid biopsy platform for cancer detection. Prior to Illumina, Dr. Ronaghi was Principal Investigator at the Stanford Genome Technology Center from 1999 to 2008. Throughout his prolific career, Dr. Ronaghi co-founded several other companies, including Pyrosequencing AB in 1997, ParAllele Biosciences in 2001, NextBio in 2004, Avantome in 2008, and Clear Labs in 2014, each of which sought to increase the understanding of particular diseases through next-generation sequencing (NGS), advanced genotyping, or other advanced technology. Dr. Ronaghi currently serves on the board of multiple private companies, including Cellanome, Clear Labs, CellarEye and Tachin.ai. Additionally, Dr. Ronaghi previously served on the board of Seer, Inc., a public company, and 1Health.io, a private company. Dr. Ronaghi holds a Ph.D. in Biotechnology from Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. The Board of Directors has determined that Dr. Ronaghi qualifies as an independent director under applicable Nasdaq listing rules. We believe Dr. Ronaghi is qualified to serve on our Board of Directors because of his decades of experience in the biotech industry.