Rocket Pharmaceuticals Appoints Martin L. Wilson as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer
December 08, 2021 at 07:00 am EST
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Rocket Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced the appointment of Martin L. Wilson as General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Senior Vice President. Mr. Wilson brings nearly 20 years of legal, compliance and executive experience and accomplishment within the life sciences industry. Mr. Wilson will be responsible for the Legal and Compliance functions and serve as a key member of the leadership team. Prior to joining Rocket, Mr. Wilson was General Counsel and Chief Corporate Officer at Ichnos Sciences, where he oversaw Legal, Compliance, Business Development, Human Resources and IT. Mr. Wilson helped establish Ichnos as an independent corporate entity and set up its corporate structure. Before Ichnos, Mr. Wilson served as General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer, Corporate Secretary and Head of Human Resources at Teligent, Inc. Prior to Teligent, he was Vice President and Assistant General Counsel at Endo Pharmaceuticals following the acquisition of Par Pharmaceuticals. Mr. Wilson held multiple roles of increasing responsibility at Par over the course of 11 years, including Chief Compliance Officer. Earlier in his career, Mr. Wilson held a role in the Licensing group at Schering-Plough. He earned his Juris Doctorate from Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law.
Rocket Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a fully integrated, late-stage biotechnology company. The Company is advancing a sustainable pipeline of investigational genetic therapies designed to correct the root cause of complex and rare disorders. Its lentiviral (LV) vector-based gene therapies target hematologic diseases and consist of late-stage programs for Fanconi Anemia, a difficult to treat genetic disease that leads to bone marrow failure and potentially cancer, Leukocyte Adhesion Deficiency-I (LAD-I), a severe pediatric genetic disorder that causes recurrent and life-threatening infections which are frequently fatal, and Pyruvate Kinase Deficiency (PKD), a monogenic red blood cell disorder resulting in increased red cell destruction and mild to life-threatening anemia. It also has two clinical stages and one pre-clinical stage in vivo adeno-associated virus (AAV) programs, including programs for Danon disease, Plakophilin-2 Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy and BAG3 Dilated Cardiomyopathy.
ROCKET PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. 
