FibroGen
Mr. Cotroneo is our Chief Financial Officer, with responsibility for finance and accounting operations, Human Resources, and Information Technology. Mr. Cotroneo joined FibroGen in 2000 and has served as our CFO since 2008. Mr. Cotroneo brings 25 years experience in senior financial management in the life sciences sector. Prior to joining FibroGen, Mr. Cotroneo was at SyStemix, Inc. where he assumed Controller responsibilities for both SyStemix and for Genetic Therapy, Inc. (now Novartis) from 1993 to 2000. Prior to Novartis, Mr. Cotroneo was employed for seven years by Deloitte. Mr. Cotroneo received a B.S. degree with honors from the University of San Francisco and was selected as a Louise M. Davies Scholar.
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.