CERo Therapeutics Appoints Chris Ehrlich CEO

CERo Therapeutics Holdings, Inc. recently announced its Board of Directors has appointed Chris Ehrlich as CEO.  Previously he held the position of Interim CEO.

Mr. Ehrlich commented, “I believe that CERo presents multiple, significant opportunities to make an impact on the market and benefit a significant patient population with both sound science and an experienced team of professionals to drive successful execution.  As we draw closer to introducing CER-1236 into the clinic, we continue to make additional pre-clinical progress with CER-1236 and presently intend to file an additional Investigational New Drug Application for CER-1236 in solid tumors, including ovarian and non-small cell lung cancers, in the first half of 2025.  We also anticipate having a robust program of publications and presentations throughout 2025.  In the meantime, I’m looking forward to continued collaboration with our talented team to potentially drive this unique compound and the underlying science to patients and providers alike.  I thank the Board of Directors for their confidence and look forward to providing updates on our successes.”

Chris brings significant biotechnology industry, business development, venture capital, and investment banking experience.  In addition to his role at CERo, he currently serves as CEO of Launch One Acquisition Corporation.  Prior to these appointments he was involved in multiple leadership and transactional roles, including as CEO of Phoenix Biotech Acquisition Corporation, which merged with CERo, CEO of Locust Walk Acquisition Corporation which merged with eFFECTOR Therapeutics and as Senior Managing Director and Head of Biotechnology at Locust Walk. Prior to Locust Walk, he was a Managing Director at InterWest Partners, a venture capital firm where he served on the boards of KAI Pharmaceuticals, a privately held pharmaceutical company, which was acquired by Amgen, Biomimetic Therapeutics, Inc., which was acquired by Wright Medical Technologies, Invuity, Inc., which was acquired by Stryker and Xenon Pharmaceuticals, a NASDAQ -listed biopharmaceutical company.

In addition to his roles at CERo and LPAA, Mr. Ehrlich currently serves on the Healthcare at Kellogg Advisory Board at Northwestern University. He is the Principal of Ehrlich Bioventures, LLC, an advisory firm which assists emerging biopharmaceutical companies.  He has a B.A. in Government from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

CERo is an innovative immunotherapy company advancing the development of next generation engineered T cell therapeutics for the treatment of cancer. Its proprietary approach to T cell engineering, which enables it to integrate certain desirable characteristics of both innate and adaptive immunity into a single therapeutic construct, is designed to engage the body’s full immune repertoire to achieve optimized cancer therapy. This novel cellular immunotherapy platform is expected to redirect patient-derived T cells to eliminate tumors by building in engulfment pathways that employ phagocytic mechanisms to destroy cancer cells, creating what CERo refers to as Chimeric Engulfment Receptor T cells (CER-T). CERo believes the differentiated activity of CER-T cells will afford them greater therapeutic application than currently approved chimeric antigen receptor (CAR-T) cell therapy, as the use of CER-T may potentially span both hematological malignancies and solid tumors. CERo anticipates initiating clinical trials for its lead product candidate, CER-1236, in early 2025 for AML.