Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc. Announces Executive Changes
April 17, 2020 at 09:30 am EDT
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Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc. announced the appointment of D. Mark McClung as Executive Vice President and Chief Business Officer. Mr. McClung will oversee commercial strategic planning, alliance management and corporate and business development. Mr. McClung’s appointment is the latest in the evolution of Sangamo’s leadership implemented over the last three years as the Company’s technology and research programs have advanced into a diversified pipeline of therapeutic product candidates in various stages of clinical development. During this period, Sangamo has also appointed executive vice presidents overseeing R&D, manufacturing, legal and finance. From 2015 through 2019, Mr. McClung was Vice President and General Manager of Global Oncology Commercial at Amgen, which he joined from Onyx Pharmaceuticals where he had served as Chief Commercial Officer. For two decades prior, Mr. McClung held roles of increasing responsibility at GlaxoSmithKline in marketing and sales, commercial operations, and general management in the United States and Europe, including as Vice President and Head of Global Commercial for GSK Oncology from 2009 – 2013. Stephane Boissel, Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategy, will leave Sangamo at the end of July and eventually return to an entrepreneurial project, effective July 31, 2020. Mr. Boissel joined Sangamo in 2018 following the acquisition of TxCell (now Sangamo France), where he had served as CEO.
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.