SELLAS Life Sciences Group, Inc. announced the election of Katherine Bach Kalin to its Board of Directors. Ms. Kalin's healthcare industry experience spans pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, medical devices and digital health. She currently serves as a non-executive director on the boards of Genfit S.A., a French, public biopharmaceutical company, where she serves on the Strategy and Alliances Committee, and two private companies, Brown Advisory LLC, an independent investment and strategic advisory firm, where she sits on the Audit and Finance Committees, and FemHealth Ventures, a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in women's health.

Additionally, she currently serves as a trustee for a not-for-profit organization, the Summit Foundation, a 501(c)(3) community foundation that fosters local philanthropy. Previously, Ms. Kalin was a member of the board of directors of Athersys, a U.S. biotechnology company focused on regenerative medicine from 2020 to 2022, and Clinical Genomics, a private, biotechnology company dedicated to improving patient outcomes through early detection of colorectal cancer from 2018 to 2021. Ms. Kalin led corporate strategy at Celgene from 2012 to 2017.

Prior to that, from 2002 to 2011, she held executive leadership roles in marketing, sales and new business development at Johnson & Johnson. From 1990 to 2002, she was a partner in the global healthcare practice at McKinsey & Co. Earlier in her career, she served as a manager in corporate finance at Nomura International in the U.K. and Japan from 1980 to 1984.

She has a B.A. from Durham University in the U.K. and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.