DURHAM, N.C., Dec. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oxygen Biotherapeutics, Inc. today announced the expansion of the company's board of directors with the addition of Lt. Gen. Ronald R. Blanck, DO, U.S. Army (Ret.). Dr. Blanck is chairman of Martin, Blanck & Associates, a federal health services consulting firm based in Falls Church, Virginia. With his addition, the company board now has nine members.
After his military service and prior to joining Martin, Blanck & Associates, Dr. Blanck served as the president of the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth. As president, Dr. Blanck headed a growing academic health center that includes the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, School of Public Health and School of Health Professions.
"Also, this expansion of the board is part of our goal to change the board's structure so that it builds out its majority of independent outside directors, something I believe is important in view to a move to a major exchange listing," said Stern.
Oxygen Biotherapeutics, Inc. is dedicated to commercializing innovative pharmaceuticals and medical devices in the field of oxygen therapeutics and Defense Medicine(TM). The company has developed a perfluorocarbon (PFC) therapeutic oxygen carrier and liquid ventilation product (Oxycyte(TM)) and has out-licensed an implantable glucose sensor. These products are based upon core technologies that include biomedical applications for PFCs as well as medical and industrial applications for biosensors. Each of the product candidates is designed with advantages over currently marketed products in major markets including traumatic brain injury, sickle cell crisis, trauma, wound care, decompression sickness, acute respiratory distress syndrome, stroke, myocardial infarction, surgery, diabetes wounds and ulcers, and cosmetic applications which are being marketed under the Dermacyte name. More information is available at www.oxybiomed.com.
Oxygen Biotherapeutics, Inc.
