Mirum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced the appointment of Saira Ramasastry to the Company's board of directors and as a member of the audit committee where she will bring to bear her more than 20 years of financial leadership. Ms. Ramasastry is the managing partner of Life Sciences Advisory, LLC an independent firm that she founded to provide strategic advice and business development solutions for life science companies. Prior to founding Life Sciences Advisory, Ms. Ramasastry spent 10 years as an investment banker with Merrill Lynch & Company where she helped establish the biotechnology practice and advised on mergers and acquisitions, and strategic and capital market transactions.

Previously, she served as a financial analyst in the mergers and acquisitions group at Wasserstein Perella & Co., an investment banking firm. Ms. Ramasastry currently serves on the board of directors for Day One Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. Vir Biotechnology, Inc., Akouos, Inc., and Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd. She is also a health innovator fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. Ms. Ramasastry holds an M.S. in management science and engineering and a B.A. in economics from Stanford University, as well as a M. Phil.

in management studies from University of Cambridge.