Fulgent Genetics, Inc. announced the addition of two therapeutic industry veterans to its board of directors. Dr. Michael Nohaile, Chief Scientific Officer of Generate Biomedicines (“Generate”), and Dr. Leonard Post, Chief Scientific Officer of Vivace Therapeutics (“Vivace”), who joined the company's Board of Directors, effective August 1, 2022. Dr. Michael Nohaile is the Chief Scientific Officer of Generate, a drug generation company pioneering a machine learning-powered biomedicine platform.

Prior to joining Generate, Dr. Nohaile held several roles of increasing responsibility at Amgen Inc. (“Amgen”) where he was most recently Senior Vice President of Strategy, Commercialization, and Innovation. In this role, he served on Amgen's executive committee and led corporate strategy efforts, the commercialization process, portfolio management, and all of Amgen's data, digital health, and artificial intelligence efforts. This included oversight of a $4 billion research and development budget, as well as supervision of the leaders of all drug programs from late research to late lifecycle management.

Prior to Amgen, Dr. Nohaile was at Novartis AG in Switzerland where he was Global Head of Molecular Diagnostics. He began his career at McKinsey & Company, where he was a Partner and worked extensively in healthcare with a focus on diagnostics, devices, and pharmaceuticals. Dr. Nohaile received his Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley and completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (“MIT”).

He received his undergraduate degrees in Chemistry and Life Science from MIT. Dr. Leonard Post has over 30 years of experience with all stages of drug development, from early discovery through FDA approval, with a particular focus on oncology and genetic diseases. Since 2016, he has served as the Chief Scientific Officer (“CSO”) and member of the board of directors of Vivace, an oncology-focused drug discovery and development company, and has held a similar role in Vivace's sister company, Virtuoso Therapeutics, focused on antibodies for oncology.

Dr. Post also serves on the board of directors of a number of private and publicly traded companies across therapeutics, oncology and genetics, including uniQure, ImmVirX, ML BioSolutions and CG Oncology. Before joining Vivace as CSO, he served as Chief Scientific Officer of BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. (“BioMarin”), a publicly held biopharmaceutical firm with a focus on rare diseases. He joined BioMarin when the company acquired LEAD Therapeutics, where he was responsible for inception as well as subsequent development of talazoparib until it was sold to Medivation by BioMarin for over $400 million.

Positions prior to LEAD included Senior Vice President of Research and Development for Onyx Pharmaceuticals and Vice President of Discovery Research for Parke-Davis Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Post holds a doctorate in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin and a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Michigan.