April 15, 2020 – Three members have been added to the Board of Directors of Kainomyx. William J. Rutter, PhD, co-Founder of the early biotech company Chiron and multiple additional companies, is Chairman of the Board of Kainomyx. Rutter is Founder, Chairman and CEO of Synergenics, LLC, which controls a consortium of companies with different but complementary approaches to diagnosis, prevention and treatment on a worldwide basis. He joins James Spudich, PhD, CEO of Kainomyx and co-founder of Cytokinetics and MyoKardia. Dirk Thye, MD, serial entrepreneur who has led multiple small and medium sized companies in successful product development, and currently Executive Chairman at Geom Therapeutics, is an independent third member of the Board. The fourth Board member is Amit L. Mehta, PhD, a Life Science Research Foundation Fellow at Bell Labs and Stanford University in his early career, became an Associate Partner at McKinsey and Company, followed by Managing Director positions at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, and is currently Managing Director at J.P. Morgan.