Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc. Announces Board Changes
September 11, 2020 at 08:30 am EDT
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Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc. announced the appointment of Dr. Kenneth Hillan, an accomplished biotechnology executive, to the Company's Board of Directors. Since 2019, Dr. Hillan has served as Head of Therapeutics of 23andMe, the consumer genetics and research company, leading a dedicated discovery research and therapeutic development team that uses human genetic data to identify and pursue novel therapies for common and rare diseases. Previously, Dr. Hillan held leadership roles in the biotechnology industry. He served at Genentech from 1994 to 2011, where he led the medical and scientific strategies for its Immunology, Tissue Growth and Repair drug portfolio, and held a number of key leadership positions in research and development, including Senior Vice President of Clinical Development, Inflammation; Vice President of Immunology, Tissue Growth and Repair; Vice President of Development Sciences; and Vice President of Research Operations and Pathology. He also served as Genentech’s Senior Vice President and Head of Clinical Development and Product Development Strategy in Asia-Pacific for Roche in Shanghai, China. From 2011 to 2017, he was Chief Executive Officer of Achaogen, Inc., where he was also a member of the Board of Directors. He has also served on the Board of Directors of Zymeworks since February 2017, and was a member of the Board of Directors of Relypsa from 2014 until 2016, when it was acquired by Galenica AG. Dr. Hillan has an M.B. Ch.B. (Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery) degree from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Glasgow, U.K. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS, Glasg), and a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath). Dr. Hillan has authored dozens of scientific publications and is a named inventor on almost 50 issued patents. Sangamo also announced that Stephen Dilly, M.B.B.S., Ph.D. will resign from the Board of Directors effective September 30, 2020.
Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc. is a genomic medicines company that is developing medicines for neurological diseases. The Company's neurology preclinical development is focused on two areas: development of epigenetic regulation therapies to treat serious neurological diseases, and development of novel engineered adeno-associated virus (AAV) capsids to deliver its therapies to the intended neurological targets. The Company's zinc finger epigenetic regulators are ideally suited to potentially address neurological disorders and its capsid discovery platform is expanding delivery beyond intrathecal delivery capsids, including in the central nervous system. Its clinical-stage product candidates are Isaralgagene civaparvovec, also known as ST-920, its wholly-owned gene therapy product candidate for the treatment of Fabry disease, and TX200, its wholly-owned CAR-Treg cell therapy product candidate for the prevention of immune-mediated rejection in HLA-A2 mismatched kidney transplantation.