Syros Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Appoints S. Gail Eckhardt., as Class III Director
September 09, 2020 at 08:32 am EDT
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On September 8, 2020, the Board of Directors of Syros Pharmaceuticals, Inc. appointed S. Gail Eckhardt., as a Class III director. Dr. Eckhardt was also appointed to the Research and Development Committee of the Board. Dr. Eckhardt, inaugural Director of the Livestrong Cancer Institutes, Chair of the Department of Oncology, and Associate Dean of Cancer Programs at the University of Texas at Austin’s Dell Medical School. She has been a faculty member at the institution since January of 2017. Prior to joining UT Austin, Dr. Eckhardt was at the University of Colorado School of Medicine from 1999 until January 2017, where she had numerous roles and responsibilities, including Division Head of Medical Oncology, Associate Director for Translational Research at the University of Colorado Comprehensive Cancer Center and Director of the Phase I Program and Fellowship. Dr. Eckhardt has served on the Board of Directors of NuGenerex Immuno-Oncology, Inc., a biotechnology company, since March 2020, and has served on numerous committees and study sections, including the ASCO Molecular Oncology Task Force, the ASCO Board of Directors, the FDA Oncology Drugs Advisory Committee, and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Cancer Centers Study Section. She is a member of the NCI Investigational Drug Steering Committee and serves on 10 external advisory boards of NCI-designated cancer centers, was a lead mentor in ASCO’s Leadership Development Program and currently is a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI).
Syros Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company. The Company is focused on developing new standards of care for the frontline treatment of patients with hematologic malignancies. The Company is advancing Tamibarotene, a selective retinoic acid receptor alpha (RARα), agonist for which the Company is conducting SELECT-MDS-1, a Phase III clinical trial evaluating tamibarotene in combination with azacitidine in a genomically defined subset of patients with higher-risk myelodysplastic syndrome (HR-MDS), and for which it is conducting SELECT-AML-1, a randomized Phase II clinical trial evaluating tamibarotene in combination with venetoclax and azacitidine in a genomically defined subset of newly diagnosed patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Its other assets include SY-2101 and SY-5609. The Company is seeking out-licensing opportunities for the further development of SY-5609, its highly selective and potent inhibitor of cyclin dependent kinase 7 (CDK7).
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