Gain Therapeutics, Inc. Announces Appointment of Five Members to Its Newly Formed Scientific Advisory Board
October 26, 2021 at 08:00 am EDT
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Gain Therapeutics, Inc. announced the formation of its Scientific Advisory Board. Luca Benatti, Ph.D. will serve as chair of the SAB. Additional appointments include Samuel Broder, M.D.; Lorenzo Leoni, Ph.D.; Joanne Taylor, Ph.D.; and Michel Vellard, Ph.D. Luca Benatti, Ph.D., Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board - Dr. Benatti will lead Gain?s SAB and work closely with the company?s leadership team to shape the scientific strategy and advance Gain?s early-stage programs. He has over 30 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Dr. Benatti serves as the Chief Executive Officer and a Director of EryDel S.p.A., a private biotechnology company focused on rare diseases. Samuel Broder, M.D. - Dr. Broder has been at the forefront of science and medicine in many diverse arenas throughout his career. He is the former Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), appointed by President Ronald Reagan, where he oversaw the development of numerous anti-cancer therapeutic agents, as well as the first three agents approved by the FDA specifically to treat the AIDS virus. Joanne Taylor, Ph.D. - Dr. Taylor has over 25 years experience in the neuroscience industry. She served as vice president for Prescient Healthcare Group where she headed up their neuroscience business, advising on portfolio, clinical and regulatory strategies of a wide array of global top 25 pharmaceutical company clients. Lorenzo Leoni, Ph.D. - Dr. Leoni is a scientific serial entrepreneur and founder of six biomedical companies in the US and in Europe with an extensive network within academic, financial and industrial biotech and medtech industries. Mr. Leoni is a co-founder of Gain Therapeutics and currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Industrie Biomediche Insubri SA, a board member of Artificaly SA, and a managing partner of TiVenture SA, investing in biomedical, medical devices, industrial high-tech, digital health and other high potential companies. Michel Vellard, Ph.D. - Dr. Vellard currently serves as chief scientific officer for Home Biosciences. He has over 25 years of experience in translational biology, including co-founding Audacity Therapeutics, serving as vice president of research at Ultragenyx Pharmaceuticals, and head of lysosomal biology and principal scientist at BioMarin.
Gain Therapeutics, Inc. is a biotechnology company. The Company is focused on developing novel small molecule therapeutics to treat diseases across several therapeutic areas, including, central nervous system (CNS) disorders, lysosomal storage disorders (LSDs), metabolic disorders, and other diseases that can be targeted through protein degradation, such as oncology. Its drug discovery platform, Site-Directed Enzyme Enhancement Therapy (SEE-Tx), to discover novel allosteric binding sites on proteins implicated in a disease and to identify proprietary small molecules that bind these sites to modulate protein function and treat the underlying cause of the disease. Its lead product candidate, GT-02287, is being developed for the treatment of GBA1 Parkinson's disease, including restoration of GCase function, reduction of toxic lipid substrates and toxic forms of alpha-synuclein, improved survival of dopaminergic neurons, and enhance in dopamine levels.
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