PURE Bioscience Board Appoints John J. Carbone, MD to Board of...(constructive deformity failed spine surg...)

Dr. Carbone received a bachelor's degree in engineering from The United States Merchant Marine Academy in 1983. He then served as a marine engineer for Military Sealift Command until 1988. He received an honorable discharge as a lieutenant in the United States Naval Reserve in 1993. He received his medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1992. He completed his orthopedic residency training at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and his reconstructive spinal surgery fellowship under Dr. John Kostuik. Concurrent with his early medical career, Dr. Carbone also served in senior executive positions at two orthopedic research and design companies.

Dr. Carbone's combination of medical and engineering talents has led to a distinguished career in orthopedics research and design. His primary research focuses on the biomechanical design and use of orthopedic implants in spinal fusion.

Dr. Carbone serves on the PURE Bioscience Board as an independent director and a member of the audit committee. Dr. Carbone is not, and has not been for the past three years, employed by the Company or by any parent or subsidiary of the Company and has not accepted any payments from the Company or any parent or subsidiary of the Company during the current or any of the past three fiscal years. No family relationships exist between Dr. Carbone and PURE Bioscience, its directors or officers.

About PURE Bioscience

PURE Bioscience develops and markets technology-based bioscience products that provide solutions to numerous global health challenges, including Staph (MRSA). PURE's proprietary high efficacy/low toxicity bioscience technologies, including its silver dihydrogen citrate-based antimicrobials, represent innovative advances in diverse markets and lead today's global trend tow
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