Grigory G. Borisenko, Ph.D.
Non-Executive Director
Grigory G. Borisenko, Ph.D. has over 25 years of scientific, management and strategic experience in the life science field. Dr. Borisenko has served as an Investment Director of $3B eastern European venture capital & private equity management fund, and has specialized in investment projects in life sciences for over 10 years. He served on the board of directors of multiple biotechnological companies including Atea Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Adastra Pharmaceuticals. Currently, Dr. Borisenko provides consulting and investment advising services in the biotech area. Prior to his investment career, Dr. Borisenko held academic appointments with the University of Pittsburgh and co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed publications in leading biochemistry and cell biology journals. Dr. Borisenko received his M.S. and Ph.D. from the Pirogov State Medical University, accomplished postdoctoral training at the University of Pittsburgh and is a recipient of Fogarty International and International Fellowship Awards from NIH and WHO.
Firdaus Jal Dastoor, FCS
Non-Executive Director
Firdaus Dastoor was appointed non-executive Director of Xenetic in January 2014. He has been employed by the Cyrus Poonawalla Group, a conglomerate in India with interests in horse breeding, biotech and life sciences, and financial services, in business development strategies and operational roles since October 1981. Mr. Dastoor is currently a Group Director in charge of Finance and Corporate Affairs and Company Secretary of the Serum Institute of India Private Limited at the Cyrus Poonawalla Group. He has been a Fellow Member of The Institute of Company Secretaries of India since 1990. Mr. Dastoor is on the board of several private companies operating in the fields of life sciences and biotech, international trade, financial services and quality standards certifications. Mr. Dastoor received a B.A. in Commerce from the University of Poona.
Dmitry Genkin, MD
Non-Executive Director
Dmitry Genkin, MD, previously served on the Company’s Board of Directors from 2017-2021. He has studied drug delivery under Professor Gregory Gregoriadis at The School of Pharmacy, University of London, as well as at the Department of Clinical Pharmacology at Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm. Since 2005, Dr. Genkin has served as Executive Chairman of PJSC Pharmsynthez, a significant stockholder of Xenetic. Dr. Genkin is founder and Board member of Santersus AG – a Swiss private therapeutic medical device company developing novel apheresis therapies for extracorporeal removal of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs). Dr. Genkin is on the board of CLS Therapeutics Inc. and Peri-Ness Ltd. – private biotechnology companies developing anti-NETosis therapies. Dr. Genkin is the inventor of more than 20 patents and patent applications in the field of therapeutic targeting of NETosis and cell free DNA.
Roger Kornberg, Ph.D.
Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry - Studies of the Molecular Basis of Eukaryotic Transcription
Non-Executive Director
Dr. Kornberg was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Company in February 2016. Dr. Kornberg is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Winzer Professor of Medicine in the Department of Structural Biology at Stanford University. He earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Harvard University in 1967 and his Ph.D. in chemical physics from Stanford in 1972. He became a postdoctoral fellow at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England and then an assistant professor of biological chemistry at Harvard Medical School in 1976, before moving to his present position as professor of structural biology at Stanford Medical School in 1978. In 2006, Dr. Kornberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in recognition for his studies of the molecular basis of Eukaryotic Transcription, the process by which DNA is copied to RNA. Dr. Kornberg is also the recipient of several awards, including the 2001 Welch Prize, the highest award granted in the field of chemistry in the United States, and the 2002 Leopald Mayer Prize, the highest award granted in the field of biomedical sciences from the French Academy of Sciences.
Moshe Mizrahy
Non-Executive Director
Moshe Mizrahy is co-founder of InMode Ltd. (NASDAQ: INMD) and has served as its Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of its board of directors since its inception in 2008. Prior to that, Mr. Mizrahy was co-founder and chief executive officer of Syneron Medical Ltd. Mr. Mizrahy was also the former chief executive officer of Home Skinovations Ltd., and is currently chairman of its board. In addition to Home Skinovations Ltd., Mr. Mizrahy currently sits on the board of directors of SipNose Ltd., Pet Novations Ltd., Peri-Ness Technologies Ltd., Santersus AG, Easy-Lap Ltd., O.B.-Tools Ltd., Urifer Ltd., Easy Notes Ltd., Escape Rescue Systems Ltd., M.N. Business Strategy Ltd., Silk’n Cure Ltd., Himalaya Family Office Advising Ltd. and Polimer Logistics (Israel) Ltd. Mr. Mizrahy is co-founder and general partner of Nitzanim AVX Kyocera Venture Capital Fund and First Israel Mezzeine Investors Fund. Mr. Mizrahy has expertise in value creation for medical technologies, fundraising, public offerings, marketing and regulatory affairs. Mr. Mizrahy has a B.S. in Engineering from the Tel Aviv University and an MBA from Pace University, New York. We believe Dr. Mizrahy’s executive leadership background provide him with the appropriate set of skills to serve as a member of our Board.
Dr. Alexey Vinogradov
Non-Executive Director
Dr. Alexey Vinogradov has extensive experience in Business Development. From 2017 to 2022, he worked as a Business development director and Operations director at Сantreva S.A. (www.cantreva.com ), providing services in the field of renewable energy sources (solar, wind, hydropower). Previously, from 2015 to 2017, Dr. Vinogradov held the executive position at Togas Middle East LLC ( Dubai, UAE). Dr. Vinogradov is a Member of the Board of PJSC Pharmsynthez, a public company and shareholder of Xenetic. Since 2022, Dr. Vinogradov has led the business development of Magister Peter G. Wahl Law firm (Austria).