Elucid Makes Two Additions to its Board

Elucid has named Richard E. Kuntz, M.D., and Shamiram Feinglass, M.D., as board directors. The new additions will help guide the company as it accelerates its clinical research strategy, commercializes its flagship PlaqueIQ coronary plaque assessment technology, and continues developing its investigational FFR prediction model, based on PlaqueIQ.

PlaqueIQ is the first and only U.S. Food and Drug Administration-cleared, non-invasive plaque analysis based on objective histology rather than subjective CCTA visual estimates. PlaqueIQ quantifies and classifies plaque morphology based on ground-truth histology, the gold standard for characterization of plaques. The software is designed to help physicians prioritize and personalize treatment based on actual disease, rather than population-based risk.

An experienced medical technology executive and clinical expert, Dr. Kuntz is former senior vice president and chief medical and scientific officer of Medtronic plc. Prior to joining Medtronic, he was the founder and chief scientific officer of the Harvard Clinical Research Institute (HCRI), a university-based contract research organization that coordinates National Institutes of Health (NIH) and industry clinical trials with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Dr. Kuntz has directed several multicenter clinical trials and has authored more than 250 original publications. Dr. Kuntz was an associate professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, chief of the division of Clinical Biometrics, and an interventional cardiologist in the division of cardiovascular diseases at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

Dr. Feinglass is a managing director at Manatt Health, working across the business, medical, and policy needs of health systems, life sciences, medical device, digital health, and diagnostic companies globally. Dr. Feinglass has served as an executive and chief medical officer in large multi-national life sciences corporations including Danaher and Zimmer-Biomet. In parallel, she has driven policy changes alongside senior government officials worldwide to influence health policy, regulation, and access. A former regulator at U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and commander in the U.S. Public Health Service with extensive regulatory and legislative experience, Dr. Feinglass is on faculty at the John’s Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Mental Health, and is a member of Sandoz AG’s Board of Directors.

“We are honored that Dr. Richard E. Kuntz and Dr. Shamiram Feinglass have joined Elucid’s Board of Directors,” Elucid CEO Kelly Huang, Ph.D., said “Rick lends an important and experienced interventional cardiology view, as well as expertise in clinical trial strategy and execution, and product innovation strategy. Coupled with Shami’s unparalleled expertise in market access, policy making, and regulatory strategy, the two will be invaluable as we push forward our vision of a future where cardiac care is personalized, precision patient care versus risk factor and population-based care.”

Elucid is a Boston-based artificial intelligence (AI) medical technology company developing technology designed to provide physicians with a more precise view of atherosclerosis (coronary plaque buildup), the root cause of cardiovascular disease. The company’s PlaqueIQ image analysis software is designed to help physicians prioritize and personalize treatment based on actual disease, rather than population-based risk of disease. PlaqueIQ equips physicians with critical information regarding the type and amount of plaque in arteries that can lead to heart attack and stroke. Elucid is also pursuing an indication for FFRCT, derived from its plaque algorithm, to help identify coronary blockages and the extent of ischemia non-invasively.