Company Announces Addition of Dr. Kapil Bharti and Dr. Dimiter Dimitrov to Scientific and Clinical Advisory Board
Boca Raton, FL / PRNewswire / April 29, 2021 / Curative Biotechnology, Inc. (OTC: CUBT) a development stage biomedical company focused on novel therapies for rare diseases, announced today the Company’s trading symbol change from “CTYX” to “CUBT”. As previously announced, the Company had changed its corporate name to Curative Biotechnology, Inc. to better represent its mission to discover and develop therapeutics for patients who have few, if any, effective treatments for rare diseases. Curative Biotechnology Inc. Chairman and President Paul Michaels said, “This name and symbol change are reflective of our total remaking of this company and our mission to create treatments or cures for unmet medical needs for patients around the world.”
Michaels added, “We are also very pleased to announce two additions to our Scientific and Clinical Advisory Board. Both are important thought leaders in their respective fields and have joined our Scientific and Clinical Advisory Board to help guide our programs through pre-clinical and clinical development.”
Dr. Kapil Bharti
Kapil Bharti, Ph.D. from the National Eye Institute (NEI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has joined our Scientific and Clinical Advisory Board. Dr. Bharti is the lead inventor on the U.S. and Worldwide patent applications licensed exclusively to Curative Biotech to repurpose Metformin into an eye drop to treat degenerative eye diseases like macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, Stargardt’s disease, and others.
He is a world leader in his field, and we look forward to working closely with him as we prepare to move into clinical trials. Dr. Bharti earned his Ph.D. from J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, graduating summa cum laude. He did his postdoc work at NIH, where he published numerous papers on pigment cell biology, transcription regulation and the developmental biology of the eye.
Dr. Bharti has won a number of awards including being the first Earl Stadtman Tenure Track Investigator at NEI, NIH Directors award and NEI Directors Dr. Karl Kupfer Visionary award for his groundbreaking research on developing ocular celltherapies.