Altimmune, Inc. Appoints Diane Jorkasky to Its Board of Directors
May 12, 2020 at 07:00 am EDT
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Altimmune, Inc. announced the appointment of Diane Jorkasky, M.D. to its Board of Directors. With Dr. Jorkasky’s appointment, the size of the board increased to eight members. Diane K. Jorkasky, M.D. FACP is a highly regarded pharmaceutical industry executive with a broad background across research and all phases of clinical development in multiple therapeutic areas. In addition to being a member of Altimmune’s Board, Dr. Jorkasky also serves as a Director on the Board of Alzheon, Inc. Prior to her current roles, she was Chief Medical Officer and Head of Development of Complexa Inc., Chief Medical Officer of Endo Pharmaceuticals, and Chief Development and Medical Officer of Aileron Therapeutics, Inc. Her experience also includes executive positions with Pfizer as its Vice President of Global Clinical Research Operations, where she was responsible for all exploratory development, clinical pharmacology and translational medicine. Of her many accomplishments, she led Pfizer’s international Clinical Research Units which received certification by American Accreditation for Human Rights Protection Policies for their clinical research process, the first in industry or academia to achieve such a recognition. Previously, Dr. Jorkasky was Vice President of Clinical Research at SmithKline Beecham, and Chief of Nephrology at Presbyterian-Penn Medical Center in Philadelphia.
Altimmune, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing treatments for obesity and liver diseases. The Company's lead product candidate, pemvidutide, is a GLP-1/glucagon dual receptor agonist that is being developed for the treatment of obesity and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH). The Company has completed the MOMENTUM Phase II obesity trial and is being studied in the IMPACT Phase IIb MASH trial. It is also developing HepTcell, an immunotherapeutic product candidate for patients chronically infected with the hepatitis B virus (HBV). The Company has completed the enrollment in its Phase II clinical trial of HepTcell. Its product candidates are based on its proprietary platform technologies, such as EuPort-based Peptide Technology and Synthetic Peptide Technology-Densigen. The Companyâs wholly owned subsidiaries include Altimmune, LLC, Altimmune UK, Limited, Spitfire Pharma, LLC and Altimmune AU Pty, Limited.