FibroGen
Mr. Lowenstein, Chief Legal Officer, joined the company in 2003. Mr. Lowenstein has nearly 20 years of legal practice with a particular emphasis on corporate and securities law and life science transactions. Prior to joining FibroGen, Mr. Lowenstein practiced at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he focused on corporate law, securities, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and strategic transactions. He earned a J.D. from Columbia University, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and a B.A., magna cum laude, from Brown University. Mr. Lowenstein is a member of the State Bar of California.
FibroGen
FibroGen, Inc. is a science-based biopharmaceutical company discovering and developing a pipeline of first- in-class therapeutics. The Company is focused on fibrosis and hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) biology and clinical development to advance innovative medicines for the treatment of anemia, fibrotic disease, and cancer. Roxadustat, the Company's most advanced product candidate, is an oral small molecule inhibitor of HIF prolyl hydroxylase activity in Phase III clinical development for the treatment of anemia in chronic kidney disease (CKD), and is entering Phase III development for anemia in lower risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). The Company has developed Pamrevlumab. Pamrevlumab is a proprietary therapeutic antibody to inhibit the activity of connective tissue growth factor (CTGF), a common factor in chronic fibrotic and proliferative disorders characterized by persistent and excessive scarring that can lead to organ dysfunction and failure.