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DAVEY SMITH, MD, MAS, CHIEF SCIENCE ADVISOR 1/6/21
Linear Therapies is pleased to announce the appointment of Davey Smith, MD, MAS, as Chief Science Advisor. During his career Davey has played an active roll fighting many diseases including HIV and COVID-19. Davey learned of Linear Therapies and their promising antiviral therapeutic when the molecule was first being tested at Scripps Laboratories in La Jolla. While he maintained mild skepticism from seeing many therapeutics fail in animal trials he agreed to observe and monitor the results. When the first trial produced a 99.4% viral load reduction, he saw a potential winner and agreed to join the Linear Therapies effort. His advice and cooperation to navigate the approval process has been extremely helpful accelerating the approval process with the goal of gaining emergency use authorization. |