Capricor Therapeutics, Inc. announced the appointment of Houman Hemmati, M.D., Ph.D. to the newly created position of Vice President of Medical and Clinical Development for New Therapies. In this role, Dr. Hemmati will work to drive promising new therapies such as Capricor's exosome platform into clinical development as he works closely with the R&D, manufacturing and product development teams. Prior to joining Capricor, Dr. Hemmati, an ophthalmologist, was Director of Clinical Development at Allergan, where responsibilities included early to late stage clinical trial development of high profile ophthalmic products such as Restasis-X as well as Allegan's androgen based ophthalmic treatment and AGN 199201 for presbyopia. Prior to his time at Allergan, he co-founded Avicenna Pharmaceuticals in Paris, France, to advance a technology based on cancer stem cell mutations he had discovered at Caltech.