Aethlon Medical, Inc. Appoints Nicolas Gikakis as Member of the Board and Member of the Nominating Committee
July 06, 2023 at 04:15 pm EDT
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On July 3, 2023, the Board of Directors of Aethlon Medical, Inc., upon recommendation of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the Board, appointed Nicolas Gikakis as (i) a member of the Board, and (ii) a member of the Nominating Committee. From 2021 to May 2023, Mr. Gikakis served as the Head of Commercial for WearOptimo Pty Ltd, a private Australian medical device and digital health company. Previously, from 2017 to 2019, Mr. Gikakis was Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development at Oventus Medical Limited, a private medical device company, during which time he assisted with the commercial expansion of its sleep apnea device.
From 2012 to 2021, Mr. Gikakis held various leadership and independent strategic advisor positions in the healthcare industry in sales, marketing, product development, and corporate development and transactions, including for companies working with blood filtration and purification. Mr. Gikakis earned a BS in bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania and holds an MBA from George Mason University, with earlier work in bench and clinical research, and clinical experience at the University of Pennsylvania.
Aethlon Medical, Inc. (Aethlon) is a medical therapeutic company focused on developing the Hemopurifier, a clinical-stage immunotherapeutic device which is designed to combat cancer and life-threatening viral infections suppression, seed the spread of metastasis and inhibit the benefit of cancer therapies. The Hemopurifier is designed to deplete the presence of circulating tumor-derived exosomes that promote immune suppression. Hemopurifier helps to bind and clear multiple different glycosylated viruses, such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), Dengue, West Nile, multiple strains of influenza, Ebola, Chikungunya, smallpox, monkeypox, multiple herpes viruses, a MERS-CoV related pseudovirus, and others. Hemopurifier is used as a device for two independent indications: the treatment of individuals with advanced or metastatic cancer and the treatment of life threating viruses that are not approved therapies.
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