Contineum Therapeutics Announces Appointment of John Healy as General Counsel & Corporate Secretary

2024-06-03

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SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Contineum Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTNM), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing novel, oral small molecule therapies that target biological pathways associated with specific clinical impairments for the treatment of neuroscience, inflammation and immunology (NI&I) indications, today announced the appointment of John Healy as General Counsel & Corporate Secretary. “We are excited that John has joined Contineum, as he brings more than twenty years of law firm and in house legal experience in the life sciences industry to Contineum,” said Carmine Stengone, Chief Executive Officer of Contineum. “John will be a tremendous asset as a member of our leadership team and will provide valuable guidance as we continue our next steps of growth towards becoming a leading biopharmaceutical company.” Mr. Healy is a business and transactional attorney with over two decades of experience in the biotechnology industry, including as a corporate associate within top tier law firms, as a public company general counsel and as a trusted legal advisor providing a broad range of legal consulting support to the executive management teams of his private and public consulting clients. He joins Contineum after serving as General Counsel & Corporate Secretary at the public biotechnology company, Tyra Biosciences, Inc., where he served on the executive management team and was responsible for all company legal matters, including overseeing the company’s IPO in late 2021 and transition to becoming a public company. Additionally, for more than a decade, Mr. Healy has been a legal consultant to numerous privately held and publicly traded clients within the life sciences industry, including Contineum, providing executive level counsel and advice to senior management teams, boards of directors and company departments on legal matters through the full corporate life cycle from early stage through research, product formulation and manufacturing, pre-clinical/clinical development to initial public offering or corporate acquisition. Prior to his consulting practice, Mr. Healy served as General Counsel & Secretary for Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals, a publicly traded biotechnology company. Mr. Healy began his career supporting life sciences and emerging growth companies as a corporate, transactional and securities attorney at national law firms including tenures at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, Clifford Chance and Latham & Watkins. Mr. Healy received his J.D. from the University of San Diego School of Law and a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley. “I’m thrilled to join Contineum at this exciting time,” said Mr. Healy. “The Contineum team has made great progress with its internally-developed platform for NI&I conditions and I look forward to working with the team to help guide the company to its next phase of growth.” About Contineum Therapeutics Contineum Therapeutics (Nasdaq: CTNM) is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing novel, oral small molecule therapies for NI&I indications with high unmet need. Contineum is focused on targeting biological pathways associated with specific clinical impairments, that Contineum believes, once modulated, may demonstrably impact the course of disease. Contineum has a pipeline of internally-developed programs to address multiple NI&I disorders. PIPE-791 is an LPA1 receptor antagonist LPA1 receptor antagonist which recently completed a Phase 1 healthy volunteer clinical trial to support ongoing clinical development for IPF and progressive multiple sclerosis. PIPE-307, a selective inhibitor of the M1 receptor, is currently in a Phase 2 clinical trial for relapse-remitting multiple sclerosis, and a Phase 2 trial in depression is planned to initiate in 2024. Contineum is developing PIPE-307 in collaboration with Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicines. Contineum is headquartered in San Diego, CA. For more information, please visit . Forward-Looking Statements Certain statements contained in this press release, other than historical information, constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. 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