First Woman President and CEO of MSM and Internationally Recognized Health Equity Advocate Joins successful GeoVax Special Advisory Role
ATLANTA, GA, Dec. 20, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via NewMediaWire -- GeoVax Labs, Inc. (Nasdaq: GOVX), a biotechnology institution processing immunotherapies and vaccines against cancers and infectious diseases, announced contiguous the assignment of Valerie Montgomery Rice, MD, FACOG, Morehouse School of Medicine President and CEO, arsenic Special Advisor to the Chairman/CEO and Board of Directors of GeoVax.
Dr. Montgomery Rice brings GeoVax exceptional expertise and highly recognized acquisition astatine the highest levels of healthcare leadership, diligent care, biomedical research, and nationalist wellness policy.
“We are delighted Dr. Montgomery Rice is joining successful this unsocial advisory relation for GeoVax’s increasing ecosystem of outstanding executives, advisors, committee members, scientists, and partners,” said David Dodd, GeoVax Chairman and CEO. “Her organizational absorption acumen and career-long dedication to beforehand aesculapian training, wellness equity and different captious areas of nationalist health, volition adhd magnitude to our initiatives to grow entree to our investigational vaccines and immunotherapies against life-threatening infectious diseases and cancers.”
Dr. Montgomery Rice has been a driving unit down research, acquisition and attraction that closes equity gaps successful healthcare, including women’s health. She presently serves arsenic President and Chief Executive Officer of the Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) successful Atlanta and is the archetypal pistillate successful the institution’s past to service successful this role. At MSM, she has besides served arsenic Dean and Executive Vice President and prof of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Prior to MSM, Dr. Montgomery Rice held a fig of module and enactment positions astatine Meharry Medical College successful Nashville, including prof and seat successful the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dean and Senior Vice President of Meharry Medical College’s School of Medicine, and Program Director of the OB-GYN Residency Training Program and Founding Director of the Center for Women’s Health Research, 1 of the nation’s archetypal probe centers devoted to studying diseases that disproportionately interaction women of color. Dr. Montgomery Rice besides served successful module and enactment roles astatine University of Kansas School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and Henry Ford Medical Center.
Dr. Montgomery Rice holds memberships successful assorted organizations and participates connected respective boards. She is an Advisory Board Member of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Capital Financing Advisory Board. She besides serves connected the committee of directors for UnitedHealth Group, Wellpath, 23&Me, Nemours, CARE USA, Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, and the Moffit Cancer Center. In 2021, Governor Brian Kemp appointed Dr. Montgomery Rice to the Georgia Commission connected Women, wherever she lends her extent of cognition and expertise arsenic a women’s wellness researcher to amended the beingness of women and their families successful Georgia. In March 2022, President Joe Biden appointed Dr. Montgomery Rice to the President’s Committee connected the National Medal of Science.
“I americium peculiarly excited astir GeoVax’s innovative programs focused connected providing the nationalist extortion from the astir pressing and emerging infectious illness threats,” said Dr. Montgomery Rice. “I look guardant to helping GeoVax arsenic the institution progresses its vaccine and immunology programs toward patients.”
Dedicated to the instauration and advancement of wellness equity, Dr. Montgomery Rice’s vocation has been recognized with galore accolades and honors, notably, the Horatio Alger Award, the National Human Relations Award from the American Jewish Committee Atlanta, the Dean Griffin Community Service Award from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Girls Inc. 2019 Smart Award, the National Medical Association OB/GYN 2019 Legend of the Section Award, the Turknett Leadership Character Award, Visions of Excellence Award from the Atlanta Business League, the Links Incorporated Co-Founders Award, the Trumpet Vanguard Award, the Dorothy I. Height Crystal Stair Award, National Coalition of 100 Black Women - Women of Impact, YWCA – Women of Achievement of Atlanta and Nashville, American Medical Women’s Association Elizabeth Blackwell Medal, and Working Mother Media Multicultural Women’s Legacy Award.
Dr. Montgomery Rice holds a bachelor’s grade successful chemistry from the Georgia Institute of Technology, a aesculapian grade from Harvard Medical School, an honorary grade from the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and a Doctor of Humane Letters honorary grade from Rush University.
About GeoVax
GeoVax Labs, Inc. is simply a clinical-stage biotechnology institution processing caller therapies and vaccines for cancers and galore of the world’s astir threatening infectious diseases. The company’s pb programme successful oncology is simply a caller oncolytic coagulated tumor gene-directed therapy, Gedeptin®, presently successful a multicenter Phase 1/2 objective proceedings for precocious caput and cervix cancers. GeoVax’s pb infectious illness campaigner is GEO-CM04S1, a next-generation COVID-19 vaccine targeting high-risk immunocompromised diligent populations. Currently successful 2 Phase 2 objective trials, GEO-CM04S1 is being evaluated arsenic a single-dose, COVID-19 vaccine for immunocompromised patients specified arsenic those suffering from hematologic cancers and different diligent populations for whom the existent authorized COVID-19 vaccines are insufficient. In addition, GEO-CM04S1 is successful a Phase 2 objective proceedings evaluating the vaccine arsenic a much robust, durable COVID-19 booster among steadfast patients who antecedently received the mRNA vaccines. GeoVax has a enactment squad who person driven important worth instauration crossed aggregate beingness subject companies implicit the past respective decades. For much information, sojourn our website: www.geovax.com.
Media Relations Contact:
Gina Cestari
6 Degrees
917-797-7904
gcestari@6degreespr.com
Investor Relations Contact:
Rich Cockrell
CG Capital
404-736-3838
govx@cg.capital
English (US)