RASNA THERAPEUTICS, INC. (OTCMKTS:RASP) Files An 8-K Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

RASNA THERAPEUTICS, INC. (OTCMKTS:RASP) Files An 8-K Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
Item 5.02Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

On April 14, 2017, Kunwar Shailubhai, Ph.D., M.B.A. was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Rasna Therapeutics, Inc. (the “Company”). Dr. Shalubhai is a director of the Company and does not have any relationship with the Company that would require disclosure to Item 404(a) of SEC Regulation S-K. In connection with his appointment, Dr. Shailubhai was granted incentive stock options to purchase 1,700,000 shares of common stock at $0.85 per share. 425,000 of such stock options vest on each of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th anniversary of the date of grant.

As of April 14, 2017, James Tripp, formerly acting Chief Executive Officer of the Company, was appointed Chief Operating Officer of the Company.

Dr. Shailubhai has served as the Chief Scientific Officer of Synergy Pharmaceuticals Inc. since July 2008. From March 2004 until July 2008 he served as Senior Vice President, Drug Discovery, of Synergy which at that time was a subsidiary of Callisto Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Between 1993 and 2000, he was with Monsanto Company, serving as Group Leader of the cancer chemoprevention group. Dr. Shailubhai previously served as a Senior Staff Fellow at the National Institutes of Health, and as an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland. Dr. Shailubhai received his Ph.D. in microbiology in 1984 from the University of Baroda, India, and his M.B.A. in 2001 from the University of Missouri, St. Louis.


About RASNA THERAPEUTICS, INC. (OTCMKTS:RASP)

Rasna Therapeutics, Inc., formerly Active With Me Inc., creates online resources that offer travelers information on activity-based travel. The Company’s Website focuses on offering third-party content and information to visitors in their activity of choice. The Company’s Website also focuses on offering links to clubs and organizations. The Company is in development-stage. Rasna DE is the subsidiary of the Company. Rasna DE is engaged in modulating the molecular targets nucleophosmin gene (NPM1) and lysine (K)-specific demethylase 1A (LSD1), which are implicated in the disease progression of leukemia and lymphoma. The Company focuses on performing preclinical research on NPM1 and LSD1. As of June 30, 2016, the Company had not generated any revenues.

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