CEL-SCI Corporation announced the appointment of Dr. Gail K. Naughton to its Board of Directors. Dr. Naughton has been a pioneer in the field of regenerative medicine for over 35 years. She was the founder of Advanced Tissue Sciences, where she oversaw the design and development of the world's first up-scaled manufacturing facility for cell-based products, established corporate development and marketing partnerships with companies including Smith & Nephew, Medtronic, and Inamed Corporation, was pivotal in raising over $350 million from the public market and corporate partnerships, and brought four human cell-based products from concept through FDA approval and market launch.

She founded Histogen in 2007 and holds more than 125 U.S. and foreign patents and has been extensively published in the field. Dr. Naughton served as Dean of the College of Business Administration at San Diego State University from 2002 until 2011 where she helped to make SDSU the first US campus to establish a Ph.D./MBA in life sciences. In 2000, Dr. Naughton received the 27th Annual National Inventor of the Year award by the Intellectual Property Owners Association in honor of her pioneering work in the field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

Dr. Naughton received her Ph.D. and M.S. from NYU Medical Center and an MBA from UCLA. She currently sits on the Board of directors of Therapeutics MD and is the Chair of the Board of the La Jolla Institute for Immunology.