RevOpsis Names Emmett Cunningham, MD, PhD, to Strategic Advisory Board

RevOpsis Therapeutics announced the appointment of Emmett Cunningham, MD, PhD, to its Strategic Advisory Board (SAB) and as a private investor. Dr. Cunningham brings more than 20 years of experience as a full-time entrepreneur and investor to his new role with RevOpsis.

Dr. Cunningham is currently Senior Partner at HealthQuest Capital Management. He most recently served as a Senior Managing Director at Blackstone Life Sciences group (BXLS) of Blackstone, Inc. (BX), through the acquisition of Clarus Ventures in 2018, where he was a member of the full-time investment team since Clarus' inception in 2006.

"I am honored to join RevOpsis as an early investor and Strategic Advisory Board member. My experience is well aligned to contribute to the RevOpsis mission of revolutionizing ophthalmic therapies," Dr. Cunningham said in a company news release. "I am impressed by the company's dedication to innovation and commitment to improving patient care. I look forward to collaborating with the team to drive their pipeline of transformative treatments forward."

Dr. Cunningham's career includes several prominent board memberships with various biopharmaceutical companies including several ophthalmology focused companies such as Annexon Biosciences, GrayBug Vision, Nacuity Pharmaceuticals, and Eyconis, where he is co-founder and executive chair.

"We are excited to welcome Dr. Emmett Cunningham to our Strategic Advisory Board," said RevOpsis interim CEO Dr. Ram Bhandari. "Dr. Cunningham's wealth of experience and deep understanding of the ophthalmic and investment landscapes make him an invaluable asset to the RevOpsis' SAB. Dr. Cunningham's guidance will be instrumental as we continue to advance our proprietary Rev-Mod Platform and develop novel treatments for chronic multifactorial diseases, including our current lead candidate RO-104."

Leveraging the proprietary Rev-Mod platform, RO-104 is RevOpsis' current lead candidate. Engineered as a first-in-class fully human modular tri-specific biologic designed to address all three clinically validated dominant angiogenic pathways (VEGF-A, VEGF-C, Ang-2) implicated in retinal vascular disease progression, including wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD).