MetaStat, Inc. announced the appointment of Jerome B. Zeldis, M.D., Ph.D. to serve as Vice Chairman of the company's Board of Directors. Dr. Zeldis is the Chief Medical Officer of Celgene Corporation and Chief Executive Officer of Celgene Global Health. Dr. Zeldis is the Chief Medical Officer of Celgene Corporation and Chief Executive Officer of Celgene Global Health.

Prior to joining Celgene in 1997, Dr. Zeldis held positions at Sandoz Research Institute and Janssen Research Institute in both clinical research and medical development. He currently serves as Chairman of the board of Alliqua and Trek Therapeutics in addition to board positions at Bionor Pharma, PTC Therapeutics, and Soligenix. He was Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Associate Professor of Medicine at University of California, Davis, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Cornell Medical School, and Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.