Synthetic Biologics Inc. announced the formation of a Clinical Advisory Board (CAB) to support development of SYN-004, the company's anti-infective product candidate for the prevention of the devastating effects of Clostridium difficile (C. difficile). The new CAB is comprised of industry leaders Mark Wilcox, M.D., (Chairman), Curtis Donskey, M.D., Ciarán Kelly, M.D. and Tom Louie, M.D., all of whom will provide expertise and guidance on each aspect of the C. diff clinical program. Professor Mark Wilcox M.D., FRCPath, is a Consultant Microbiologist, Head of Microbiology and Academic Lead of Pathology at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals (LTHT), Professor of Medical Microbiology at the University of Leeds at their Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, and is the lead on Clostridium difficile for Public Health England in the UK.

Curtis Donskey, M.D., is Associate Professor of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, as well as Chairman of the Infection Control Committee at the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans' Affairs Medical Center. Ciarán P. Kelly, M.D., is Professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, as well as Director of Gastroenterology Fellowship Training and Medical Director of the Celiac Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA. Dr. Kelly has longstanding clinical and research interests into the causes, diagnosis and treatment of Clostridium difficile infection, and he leads NIH-funded research on C. difficile colitis.

Thomas Louie, M.D., is Professor of Medicine in the department of medicine and microbiology-immunology & infectious diseases at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. He also serves as Infection Prevention & Control officer at Alberta Health Services, and was the Medical Director of the infection prevention and control program in the Calgary Health Region 1998-2013.