Longeveron Inc. announced the addition of K. Chris Min, M.D., Ph.D. to the Longeveron executive leadership team in the role of Chief Medical Officer (CMO), effective April 4, 2022. Dr. Min will lead global clinical development and regulatory strategy for Longeveron's investigational products, with advancing its lead product Lomecel-B into pivotal stage trials and approval as his top priority. Dr. Min brings to Longeveron over a decade of pharma and biotech clinical development experience.

This includes work on novel cell therapy, leading R&D and clinical teams, and advancing regulatory engagements with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from early clinical stage Investigational New Drug (IND) applications through to pre-approval New Drug Applications (NDA). Most recently, Dr. Min served as Vice President and Head of Medical & Clinical Development at Enterin Inc. Prior to his role at Enterin, Dr. Min was the Head of Clinical Pharmacology at Cerevel Therapeutics, leading a broad portfolio of neuroscience-focused therapeutics and spearheading a successful IND submission for CVL-936, an investigational therapy for the treatment of substance use disorder. Before joining Enterin, Dr. Min was the Senior Medical Director of Neurology at BlueRock Therapeutics where he championed the clinical development process for pluripotent stem cell-derived dopaminergic neurons to treat Parkinson's Disease.

Dr. Min began his industry career at Merck Research Laboratories, where he played a leadership role on teams ranging from early-stage discovery to late-stage clinical development. At Merck, Dr. Min served as clinical team lead for more than ten Phase 1 clinical studies, including a pivotal Phase 1 safety study that led to the US approval in 2015 for Bridion®, a drug indicated for the reversal of neuromuscular blockade induced by rocuronium or vecuronium, typically during surgery. Bridion® was the first novel anesthesia product in over two decades.