This CEO Is Creating A Vaccine To Cure Breast Cancer - Meet Dr. Amit Kumar, Chairman/CEO of Anixa Biosciences $ANIX

This CEO Is Creating A Vaccine To Cure Breast Cancer - Meet Dr. Amit Kumar, Chairman/CEO of Anixa Biosciences $ANIXGuestDr. Amit Kumar, Chairman and CEO of Anixa BiosciencesAnixa Biosciences, www.Anixa.com, NASDAQ:ANIXCompany InfoAnixa BiosciencesNASDAQ:ANIXhttps://www.Anixa.com/Amit's Bio:AMIT KUMAR, PH.D.Chairman & Chief Executive OfficerDr. Kumar has been an investor, founder, director and CEO of several technology enterprises, both public and private. As CEO, he took CombiMatrix Corporation public and ran it for a decade while listed on the NASDAQ Global Market.He has worked in venture capital with OAK Investment Partners, and has been an advisor to investment funds, venture capital firms, and Fortune 500 companies. He was on the Board of Directors of Acacia Research Corporation from 2002-2008. Dr. Kumar is currently Chairman and CEO of Anixa Biosciences and he sits on the Board of other public and private companies.He has served on the Board of the American Cancer Society since 2016. He received his AB in Chemistry from Occidental College. After graduate studies at Stanford University and Caltech, he received his Ph.D. from Caltech and followed that with a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard.Company Bio:Anixa is a biotechnology company focused on the treatment and prevention of cancer. Anixa's therapeutics portfolio consists of a cancer immunotherapy program which uses a novel type of CAR-T, known as chimeric endocrine receptor T-cell (CER-T) technology.Anixa’s vaccine portfolio consists of technology focused on the immunization against specific “retired” proteins associated with breast cancer, specifically triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), and ovarian cancer. Further, Anixa is developing additional “retired tissue specific protein” vaccines to address many intractable cancers, including high incidence malignancies in lung, colon, and prostate. Retired proteins are proteins that are expressed at certain times in life and then are no longer expressed in healthy people.Anixa continually examines emerging technologies in complementary fields for further development and commercialization.