ARCA biopharma, Inc. announced that Raymond L. Woosley, M.D., Ph.D, has been appointed to the company's Board of Directors. He will serve on the Compensation and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees of the Board of Directors. Dr. Woosley is currently the President, Emeritus, of the Critical Path Institute (C-Path), a non-profit, public-private partnership with the United States Food and Drug Administration, of which he was a founder, and where he served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board from 2005 to 2011.

Since 2012, Dr. Woosley is also the President and Chairman of the Board of the Arizona Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics (AzCERT), an independent, nonprofit research and education organization dedicated to the safe use of medicines. ARCA also announced that Jean-Francois Formela, M.D., Partner at Atlas Ventures, resigned from the ARCA Board of Directors. Dr. Formela has been a member of ARCA's Board of Directors since February 2006.