Gossamer Bio Announces Appointment of Sandra Milligan, M.D., J.D., to its Board of Directors
June 14, 2021 at 04:01 pm EDT
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Gossamer Bio, Inc. announced the appointment of Sandra Milligan, M.D., J.D., to its Board of Directors. Since June 2020, Dr. Milligan has served as the Head of Research and Development of Organon & Co. Before joining Organon, Dr. Milligan served as Merck & Co.’s Senior Vice President and Head of Global Regulatory Affairs and Clinical Safety, from 2015 to 2020. Previously, from 2012 to 2015, she served as Vice President of Product Development Regulatory for Genentech, Inc., and from 2002 to 2012, she was at Amgen Inc. in positions of increasing responsibility across legal and regulatory affairs functions. Dr. Milligan served in the United States Army Medical Corps from 1987 to 1994. Dr. Milligan was on the Board of Directors of the Drug Information Association, or DIA, from 2011 to 2017, including serving as chair, and is now a DIA fellow.
Gossamer Bio, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. The Company is focused on the development and commercialization of seralutinib for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Its product candidate Seralutinib, also known as GB002, is an investigational inhaled, small molecule, platelet-derived growth factor receptor (PDGFR), colony-stimulating factor 1 receptor (CSF1R), and c-KIT inhibitor, being evaluated in a Phase III clinical trial for the treatment of PAH. In contrast to the three classes of marketed vasodilatory therapies for PAH, its seralutinib has the potential to reverse pathological remodeling by addressing mechanisms that underlie PAH. Inhaled seralutinib, which is designed to act on both isoforms of the PDGFR, α and β, as well as the CSF1R and c-KIT pathways. In addition to PAH, seralutinib holds the potential as a therapeutic option for the treatment of pulmonary hypertension associated with interstitial lung disease (PH-ILD).
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