Board of Directors

 

 

  • Neil Cohen

    Director

    Neil Cohen served as interim CEO of Anchiano Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ANCN) from October 2020 until its merger with Chemomab in March 2021. He has served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Castel Partners Ltd. since January 2012. In 1994, he co-founded Israel Seed Partners, a leading venture capital firm, and managed the firm until 2019. Mr. Cohen has invested in and served on the boards of directors of many private technology companies, including a large number which were acquired or completed successful initial public offerings. He is a venture partner at SKY, an Israeli middle-market private equity firm, at Hetz Ventures Management Ltd., an early-stage Israeli venture capital fund, and Shavit Capital. Mr. Cohen was previously the Business Editor of The Jerusalem Post and began his career in the private equity group at the Rothschild Bioscience Unit of N M Rothschild & Sons Limited in London. Mr. Cohen received a B.A. and M.A., with first class honors, from Oxford University.

  • Nissim Darvish

    Director

    Nissim Darvish is a Venture Partner at OrbiMed Israel. Dr. Darvish is a veteran of the life science industry, with fifteen over 20 years of experience covering biotech, medical technology development, corporate leadership and investment management. Dr. Darvish spent 8 years with Pitango, where he was a General Partner managing life sciences investments. Previously, Dr. Darvish was the founder and CEO of Impulse Dynamics, which he led for 6 years, culminating in a $250 million realization event. Dr. Darvish obtained his MD and PhD in biophysics and physiology from the Technion in Israel and subsequently conducted his postdoctoral research at the NIH. He has published over 100 patents, authored over 20 publications and received 8 distinguished prizes and awards.

  • Alan Moses

    Director

    Alan Moses, spent 14 years at Novo Nordisk, held multiple roles and rising to the position of Senior Vice President and Global Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Moses was co-founder and co-director of the Clinical Investigator Training Program at Beth Israel Deaconess-Harvard Medical School-MIT and served as Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston and was appointed Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Moses earned his M.D. from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, worked at the National Institutes of Health and completed subspecialty clinical training in Endocrinology at Tufts New England Medical Center.

  • Claude Nicaise

    Director

    Claude Nicaise is the owner of Clinical Regulatory Services, a company providing advice on clinical and regulatory matters to biotechnology companies.

    Dr. Nicaise was a Senior Vice President of Strategic Development and Global Regulatory Affairs at Alexion Pharmaceuticals from 2008 to 2014. From 1983 to 2008, Dr. Nicaise served in various positions of increasing responsibility at Bristol-Myers Squibb, including senior positions such as Vice President of Global Development, Vice-President of Worldwide Regulatory Science and Strategy, and leadership positions in Oncology, Infectious Disease, and Neuroscience development.  Dr. Nicaise is a board member in several public and private companies and received his medical degree from the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium.

  • Jill Quigley