SanBio : Notice Concerning Changes to Our Lineup of Corporate Officers
July 01, 2021 at 02:04 am EDT
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July 1, 2021
Company name:
SanBio Co., Ltd.
Representative:
Keita Mori, Representative Director
and President
(TSE Mothers Code: 4592)
Contact:
Yoshihiro Kakutani, Corporate Officer
of Management Administration
(TEL. +81-3-6264-3481)
Notice Concerning Changes to Our Lineup of Corporate Officers
SanBio Company Limited (hereafter, the "Company") hereby announces that its Board of Directors has decided through a meeting held on the date of this notice to implement the following changes to its lineup of corporate officers, effective on July 1, 2021.
1. Changes
With the departure of Corporate Officer Hiroshi Yamamoto, Representative Director, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) Akihiro Tsujimura will assume the additional offices of Business Head (Japan/Asia) and CEO of subsidiary SanBio Asia Pte. Ltd. (based in Singapore), positions that were previously held by Yamamoto. Following his separation, Yamamoto will continue to support the Company as a senior advisor, providing assistance as it aims to receive manufacturing and marketing approval for regenerative cell medicine SB623 as a treatment for chronic effects associated with traumatic brain injury (TBI program) and establish the post-launch framework necessary to ensure the medicine's success.
SanBio Co, Ltd.
Former position
New position
Akihiro Tsujimura
Representative Director, Executive
Representative Director,
Vice President and COO
Executive Vice President, COO,
and Business Head (Japan/Asia)
Hiroshi Yamamoto
Corporate Officer and Business
Head (Japan/Asia)
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SanBio, Inc.
Former position
New position
Akihiro Tsujimura
Director and CEO
Director and CEO (no change)
SanBio Asia Pte. Ltd.
1
Former position
New position
Hiroshi Yamamoto
Director and CEO
-
Akihiro Tsujimura
Director
Director and CEO
2. Career summary of Mr. Akihiro Tsujimura
Name
Career summary
1992
Joined Nichimen Corp. (current Sojitz Corp.)
2001
President & CEO, Biaxis Packaging Sales Inc., an
overseas joint venture of Nichimen
Akihiro Tsujimura
2004
Joined Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
(DOB: Dec. 26, 1967)
2012
Corporate Officer, Santen Pharmaceutical/ President
& CEO, Santen Inc.
2015
Senior Corporate Officer and Head of Asia Business,
Santen Pharmaceutical
2016
Executive Corporate Officer and Head of Corporate
Development Division, in charge of Asia and North
America Businesses, Santen Pharmaceutical/ President
& CEO, Santen Inc.
2017
Director, Santen Pharmaceutical
2018
Joined SanBio Co., Ltd.
Senior Managing Executive Officer, SanBio/ CEO,
SanBio, Inc.
2019
Executive Officer and Senior Managing Director,
SanBio/ CEO, SanBio, Inc.
2020
Executive Vice President and COO, SanBio/ CEO,
SanBio, Inc.
2021
Representative Director, Executive Vice President and
COO, SanBio/ CEO, SanBio, Inc.
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SanBio Co Ltd is engaged in the regenerative cell business using allogeneic stem cells. The Company has the research and development base in the United States and conducts research, development, manufacture and sale of regenerative cell medicines in Japan. The Company aims to sell therapeutic agents for diseases with high unmet medical needs, mainly in diseases of the central nervous system. It is involved in the manufacture, development, non-clinical studies, clinical trials of technologies introduced from research institutes such as universities. The Company has five regenerative cell drugs, including the main product candidate SB623 (nerve regenerative cells), SB618 (function-enhancing type & Mesenchymal stem cells), SB308 (muscle stem cells), MSC1 (mesenchymal stem cells), and MSC2 (mesenchymal stem cells).