Rnai23 Jul 2020 23:12
Wonder how things are playing out from the May rns?
In addition, the Company has appointed Dr Paul Burke, Principal of Burke Bioventures LLC, as Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). Dr Burke will work with the Company to appoint additional international advisors of the highest calibre to its newly formed SAB. Experience of SAB members will include genetics, computational approaches to drug discovery and deep drug development expertise, across small molecules and RNAi.
Dr Burke brings over two decades of biopharmaceutical industry experience across a broad range of therapeutic modalities. Paul was the founding head of Pfizer's global Center of Excellence for targeted drug delivery and imaging and Chief Technology Officer of its oligonucleotide therapeutics unit. Prior to that, he was Executive Director, RNA Therapeutics at Merck & Co. Paul previously built a decade-long career at Amgen, most recently serving as Executive Director, Pharmaceutics. Dr Burke received his BSc in Chemistry from Harvey Mudd College and his PhD in Biological Chemistry from MIT, and is currently Affiliate Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Washington.