Chimerix, Inc. Promotes Michelle Laspaluto to the Position of Chief Financial Officer
December 04, 2023 at 07:00 am EST
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On November 29, 2023, the Board of Directors of Chimerix, Inc. promoted Michelle LaSpaluto to the position of Chief Financial Officer of the Company, effective December 1, 2023. Prior to her promotion as the Company's Chief Financial Officer of the Company, Ms. LaSpaluto, age 49, served as the Company's Vice President of Corporate Financial Planning and Investor Relations since October 2019, as Executive Director of Financial Planning, Analysis and Investor Relations from January 2016 to October 2019, and as Senior Director of Accounting from June 2011 to October 2019. Ms. LaSpaluto has over 25 years of experience in a range of financial, accounting, and project planning roles.
Prior to joining the Company, Ms. LaSpaluto was the senior director of accounting at AlphaVax, Inc. and started her career at Coopers & Lybrand in Detroit before transferring to Raleigh with PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP. Ms. LaSpaluto received her M.B.A. from East Carolina University and her B.S. in Accounting from Michigan State University.
Chimerix, Inc. is a biotechnology company. The Company is focused on developing medicines that address unmet medical needs. The Company's product Imipridones is a cancer therapy that provides ONC201, which is in clinical-stage development for H3 K27M-mutant glioma as its lead indication. In addition, imipridone ONC206 is in dose-escalating clinical trials. Imipridones target specific G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) and mitochondrial caseinolytic protease P (ClpP), resulting in cancer cell death. The Company's product Imipridone chemical scaffold provides an opportunity to target GPCRs and ClpP with tunable specificity and modality, which enables therapeutic use for cancer and other diseases. Its ONC206 is an imipridone, Dopamine Receptor D2 (DRD2) antagonist and ClpP agonist. Its ONC212 is an imipridone, an investigational agonist of the orphan GPCR tumor suppressor GPR132, as well as ClpP. Its CMX521 is a nucleoside analog antiviral drug candidate for the treatment of SARS-CoV-2.