George W. Dunbar

Biography

 Mr. Dunbar joined the Capricor, Inc. Board of Directors in 2012 and is a member of the Company’s Audit Committee and Compensation Committee. Mr. Dunbar is currently President and Chief Executive Officer of ISTO Biologics, a privately-held orthobiologics company backed by Thompson Street Capital Partners.  Mr. Dunbar has extensive healthcare and life sciences operating experience and has served as a director or CEO with private and public life science companies in Diagnostics, Specialty Pharma, Cell Therapy, and Biologics, two as CEO, where he led initial public offerings. Prior to joining ISTO, commencing in 2010, Mr. Dunbar served as a Venture Partner with Arboretum Ventures, a leading healthcare venture capital firm. Mr. Dunbar is currently a board member of Progenitor Life Sciences, a private next generation stem cell and immunotherapy development company. He has served as a board member for the following portfolio companies: IntelliCyt, a provider of high throughput screening and analytic tools, KFx Medical, an orthopedic medical device company (as chair), and CerviLenz, Inc., a women’s health medical device company (as executive chair). He was a past director and executive chair of Accuri Cytometers (now Becton Dickinson & Co.), a cell analysis and flow cytometer company. Mr. Dunbar attended Auburn University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and later received his M.B.A. He currently serves on the Harbert College of Business M.B.A. Advisory Board and is an advisor to Vanderbilt University’s Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization.

Research Interest

 Businees Management