Biora Therapeutics, Inc. announced the appointment of Dr. Bruce Sands as board chair of its Clinical Advisory Board for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), which also includes leading IBD researchers Dr. Geert D'Haens, Dr. Brian Feagan, and Dr. Séverine Vermeire. The clinical advisory board provides strategic guidance on clinical development of Biora's Targeted Therapeutics pipeline. Dr. Bruce Sands is the Dr. Burrill B. Crohn Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.

Dr. Sands was awarded his BA and MD from Boston University and trained in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. After completing GI fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital, he joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School and served as the Acting Chief of the Gastrointestinal Unit at MGH before moving to Mount Sinai in 2010 as Chief of the Dr. Henry D. Janowitz Division of Gastroenterology. Dr. Sands is widely recognized for his clinical investigations of new therapeutics for the inflammatory bowel diseases and has published over 250 original manuscripts.

He was the lead investigator of the landmark studies ACCENT 2, UNIFI, and VARSITY, published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Sands is also a paid consultant of Biora Therapeutics. Biographical information for all members of Biora's Clinical Advisory Board for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) can be found at bioratherapeutics.com/leadership.