Michael Grissinger is Director of the Company. Mr. Grissinger spent 22 years at Johnson & Johnson, holding positions of Vice President and Head, Worldwide Pharmaceutical Licensing as well as Vice President and Head of Worldwide Pharmaceutical Corporate Development and M&A. He has led transactions and teams across a broad span of deal-types, geographies, and therapeutic disease areas. Mr. Grissinger brings to Akari Therapeutics extensive experience in business and corporate development, finance, marketing and strategic planning in the pharmaceutical industry. Prior to joining Johnson & Johnson, Mr. Grissinger spent 20 years in the healthcare industry with Ciba-Geigy and SmithKline Beckman. Mr. Grissinger holds a B.S. in Chemistry from Juniata College and an M.B.A. from Temple University-Fox School of Business.
Over the last 9 years, insiders at Akari Therapeutics Plc have traded over $0 worth of Akari Therapeutics Plc stock and bought 1,055,600 units worth $200,564 . The most active insiders traders include Mark S Cohen, Wendy F Dicicco, and Dov Elefant. On average, Akari Therapeutics Plc executives and independent directors trade stock every 0 days with the average trade being worth of $3,693,439. The most recent stock trade was executed by Mark S Cohen on 18 September 2015, trading 1,055,600 units of AKTX stock currently worth $200,564.
akari is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative therapeutics to treat orphan autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. akari’s lead drug, coversin, a second-generation and potentially best-in-class complement inhibitor, acts on complement component-c5, preventing release of c5a and formation of c5b – 9 (also known as the membrane attack complex or mac). coversin is a recombinant small protein (16,740 da) derived from a native protein discovered in the saliva of the ornithodoros moubata tick, where it modulates the host immune system to allow the parasite to feed without alerting the host to its presence or provoking an immune response.
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