Taysha Gene Therapies, Inc. Announces Appointments to the Board and Appoints Phillip Donenberg to Serve as Audit Committee Chairman
August 31, 2020 at 07:00 am EDT
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Taysha Gene Therapies, Inc. announced the appointment of its executive leadership team. This group has significant experience in gene therapy drug development and commercialization, and will enable the company to build the corporate culture and infrastructure necessary to advance its extensive pipeline of 18 gene therapy programs, with exclusive options to acquire four additional programs from UT Southwestern Gene Therapy Program. In addition, Sukumar Nagendran, M.D., former Chief Medical Officer of AveXis, and Phillip Donenberg, former Chief Financial Officer of AveXis, have joined the company’s Board of Directors. Mr. Phillip Donenberg will also serve as the company’s Audit Committee Chairman.
Taysha Gene Therapies Inc is a clinical-stage biotechnology company, which is focused on advancing adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based gene therapies for severe monogenic diseases of the central nervous system. The Companyâs lead clinical program, TSHA-102, is in development for the treatment of Rett syndrome, a rare neurodevelopmental disorder. The Company is evaluating TSHA-102 in the REVEALPhase I/II adolescent and adult clinical trial, which is a first-in-human, open-label, randomized, dose escalation and dose-expansion, multicenter study evaluating the safety and preliminary efficacy of TSHA-102 in female patients aged 12-years and older with Rett syndrome. It has acquired a worldwide right to a clinical-stage, intrathecally dosed AAV9 gene therapy program, TSHA-120, for the treatment of giant axonal neuropathy (GAN). It received orphan drug designation from the European Commission for TSHA-120 for the treatment of GAN.
TAYSHA GENE THERAPIES, INC. 
