Sera Prognostics, Inc. Appoints Sandra A. J. Lawrence to Board of Directors
November 30, 2021 at 08:00 am EST
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Sera Prognostics, Inc. announced that Sandra A. J. Lawrence has joined the Sera Board of Directors, effective November 29, 2021. Ms. Lawrence has served as trustee of the Delaware Funds by Macquarie, as a director of its New York and Australian Stock Exchange-Listed close-end funds, DEW/VCF/DDF/VMM/VFL/IVH, and on its Audit and Investments Committees since 2021. She has served as a trustee of its legacy Ivy and Waddell and Reed Mutual Funds Complex Trust, and on its Governance Committee, since 2019. Ms. Lawrence was the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Children's Mercy Hospital, a comprehensive pediatric medical center in Kansas City, Missouri, from 2005 to 2016 and the Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer of Children's Mercy Hospital from 2016 to February 2019.
Sera Prognostics, Inc. is a women's health diagnostic company utilizing its proprietary proteomics and bioinformatics platform, and significant data resources to enhance maternal and neonatal health by discovering, developing, and commercializing blood-based biomarker tests, and predictive analytic products and services. It has built a proteomics and bioinformatics platform to characterize the biology of pregnancy and to discover and validate key protein biomarkers found in blood that are accurate predictors of dynamic changes that occur during pregnancy. Its commercial product, the PreTRM test, is a validated, commercially available blood-based biomarker test to predict the risk of a premature delivery, also known as preterm birth. The PreTRM test is a non-invasive blood test given to a pregnant woman, carrying a single fetus, during weeks 18 through 20 of gestation that provides a prediction of the expectant motherâs risk of delivering spontaneously before 37 weeksâ gestation.
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