ORGANOVO HOLDINGS, INC. (NASDAQ:ONVO) Files An 8-K Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain OfficersItem 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
On November 27, 2018, Organovo Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) announced the resignation of Dr. Sharon Presnell, one of its named executive officers, from her position as the Company’s Chief Scientific Officer and as President of the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Samsara Sciences, Inc., effective December 5, 2018.Dr. Presnell is relocating to the East Coast to pursue an opportunity with a non-profit foundation and to be closer to family.
About ORGANOVO HOLDINGS, INC. (NASDAQ:ONVO)
Organovo Holdings, Inc. is an early commercial-stage company focused on developing and commercializing functional human tissues. The Company focuses on the generation of three-dimensional (3D) human tissues, by utilizing its platform technology to create human tissue constructs in 3D. It is focused on development of products, including 3D human tissues used for the preclinical assessment of drug effects, including applications in predictive toxicology, absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion (ADME), and drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics (DMPK); customized human tissues as living, dynamic models of human biology or disease, for use in drug discovery and development, and three-dimensional human tissues for clinical applications, such as blood vessels for bypass grafting, nerve grafts for nerve damage repair and functional tissue patches for the repair or replacement of damaged tissues and organs.
