Beyond Air, Inc. Appoints Dr. Andrew Colin as Chief Medical Officer
December 01, 2021 at 08:00 am EST
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Beyond Air, Inc. announced the appointment of Dr. Andrew Colin to the newly created position of Chief Medical Officer, effective December 1, 2021. He joins Beyond Air from the Miller School of Medicine of the University of Miami, where he spent the last 16 years, serving as the Professor of Pediatric Pulmonology and Chief of the Division of Pediatric Pulmonology and the Cystic Fibrosis Program. In this role Dr. Colin directed one of only two Pediatric Pulmonary fellowship training programs in Florida, and throughout his career, has mentored nearly 60 fellows both in the United States and globally. In a career spanning four decades, Dr. Colin has seen many advances in pulmonology and has made significant contributions in multiple facets of the field. While on faculty at Boston Children?s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, he spent a decade studying HIV related lung disease and effects on lung maturation in infants and children, predominantly through application of novel technologies to study infant pulmonary function. Dr. Colin was one of the early participants in the studies for the first CF drug, DNase. As a member of the North American Scientific Advisory Board of the Epidemiology Study of Cystic Fibrosis that was established by Genentech following the DNase studies, he participated in the creation of the first major database for all CF patients in the United States and the basis of multiple subsequent studies. In recent years, his focus has been on nontuberculous mycobacteria lung infection, and he was the first to report successful treatment with nebulized amikacin for Mycobacterium abscessus in CF patients.
Beyond Air, Inc. is a commercial-stage medical device and biopharmaceutical company developing a platform of nitric oxide (NO) generators and delivery systems (the LungFit platform) capable of generating NO from ambient air. The Companyâs LungFit platform can be used to treat patients on ventilators that require NO, as well as patients with chronic or acute severe lung infections through delivery through a breathing mask or similar apparatus. The Companyâs areas of focus with LungFit are persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN), viral community-acquired pneumonia (VCAP), including COVID-19, bronchiolitis (BRO), nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) lung infection and various severe lung infections with underlying chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Its LungFit PH is an ionizer technology that generates on-demand NO from ambient air and, regardless of dose or flow, delivers it to a ventilator circuit. The LungFit can generate up to 400 parts per million (ppm) of NO.