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Juvena Therapeutics Bolsters Leadership Team With Key Industry Veterans in Drug Discovery and Development, Data Science, and Business Development

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Juvena Therapeutics, Inc. (“Juvena”), a biotechnology company scaling a computational platform to map the therapeutic potential of secreted proteins, announced today the hiring of four senior leaders with significant industry experience in both small and large pharmaceutical and biotech companies. The company plans to continue growing its team to power the expansion of Juvena’s drug discovery platform and advance the company’s biologics pipeline targeting chronic and age-related diseases.

“We are thrilled to announce the addition of Neil, Gayathri, Mo and Eddie to the team. Their expertise and experience will be invaluable as we continue our mission to unlock the therapeutic potential of secreted proteins and engineer them into life-saving therapeutics,” said Hanadie Yousef, PhD, CEO and Co-Founder of Juvena. “With this talented management team on board along with the outstanding experienced scientists and engineers who have joined our growing team, we will continue to scale our platform and pipeline to develop innovative treatments to rejuvenate lives for patients in need.”

The hires follow the company’s oversubscribed Series A in 2022, bringing its total funding to $60 million. The senior management team contributes extensive industry knowledge and leadership in biologics drug discovery and development, data science, and business development.

About Juvena Therapeutics

Juvena Therapeutics is a biotech company accelerating the development of regenerative therapeutics by unlocking the therapeutic potential of secreted proteins. Secreted proteins are a class of biologics with proven therapeutic potential that has been under-leveraged due to the complexity of identifying and screening such proteins. The company is developing a patent-pending computational drug discovery and development platform that is delivering novel biologics to address major unmet medical needs in chronic and age-related diseases by mining regenerative proteins secreted by diverse types of human stem cells. Juvena has generated hits and new drug targets across several therapeutic areas. To learn more about Juvena Therapeutics, visit JuvenaTherapeutics.com or follow the company on LinkedIn @Juvena-Therapeutics.

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