Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

The Food and Drug Administration has identified additional safety concerns associated with use of a drug used to treat a rare liver condition in the latest sign of trouble for a medicine once seen as a future blockbuster.The agency on Thursday said its found cases of serious liver injury among patients with the rare disease primary biliary cholangitis and treated with a drug called Ocaliva, U.S. rights to which are currently owned by Italian pharmaceutical company Alfasigma. The findings were uncovered in a review of post-approval clinical trial data, and notably indicated these events occurred in patients who didnt yet have cirrhosis, or scarring of the liver. The agency three years ago restricted use of Ocaliva in those who already have advanced cirrhosis.According to the FDA, since curtailing Ocalivas use in 2021, the agency identified 20 more instances of liver transplants, listings for liver transplants, or liver-related deaths among people who received treatment. In its statement, the FDA cautioned that frequent liver test monitoring is necessary to catch a decline in organ function early in someone taking Ocaliva and to ensure appropriate discontinuation of treatment.The regulator advised doctors to stop use if patients have any evidence of disease progression or if Ocaliva isnt clearly effective. It will continue watching Ocalivas safety profile and follow up if new information arises.The announcement is another setback for Ocaliva, a drug that was once among the most closely watched medicines in the biotechnology industry.Known scientifically as obeticholic acid, Ocaliva was originally developed by biotech company Intercept Pharmaceuticals, which in 2016 secured for the drug the first FDA approval for PBC in two decades. Intercept had broader ambitions, aiming to make the drug the first available therapy for a far more common liver disease now known as metabolic dysfunction associated steatohepatitis, or MASH.Early clinical data caused Intercepts value to soar and made MASH, a leading cause of liver transplants, a top target for drugmakers. But further results made the drugs benefits less clear, and safety risks chiefly the potential for drug-induced injury more apparent. The FDA twice, in 2020 and again in 2023, rejected Ocalivas use in MASH, forcing Intercept to lay off staff and abandon development. Intercept sold to Alfasigma months after the second rejection.Since then, use of Ocaliva has been curtailed further. European regulators this year revoked its marketing authorization in the EU, where Ocaliva rights were owned by Advanz Pharma following a 2022 deal with Intercept. The FDA also declined to convert Ocalivas accelerated approval in 2016 into a standard clearance, though the agency still allowed the company to market the drug under its original OK.New competitors have emerged, too, as the FDA approved Ipsens Iqirvo in June and Gilead Sciences Livdelzi two months later.PBC is estimated to affect about 100,000 people in the U.S. The disease causes progressive organ damage and cirrhosis, and is often associated with severe itching and fatigue. '

简要回顾11月份FDA批准新药的情况： 11月28日 产品：Applied Therapeutics 的 Govorestat 适应症：半乳糖血症 在最初的目标行动日期三个月后，FDA 拒绝批准 Applied Therapeutics 的Govorestat 用于治疗罕见的遗传代谢疾病半乳糖血症。在其完整回复信中，监管机构列举了该公司临床应用中的“缺陷”。 在11月28日给投资者的一份报告中，William Blair分析师写道，Applied Therapeutics“怀疑”CRL“与疗效有关，而不是 [CMC] 或安全性”。 2023年4月公布的III期ACTION-半乳糖血症儿童研究结果表明，Govorestat 未达到其主要疗效终点，即旨在评估半乳糖血症症状各个领域的四项临床指标的综合终点。然而，据 Applied Therapeutics称，在针对成人的I/II期ACTION-半乳糖血症研究中，用 Govorestat治疗导致半乳糖醇浓度下降。 FDA曾将Govorestat的初始目标日期定为8月28日，但在3月推迟了这一日期，称需要更多时间来审查补充提交。虽然该公司对被拒绝感到“失望”，但Applied Therapeutics 公司首席执行官Soshana Shendelman在一份声明中表示，将计划“与FDA合作，解决CRL中的担忧，并确定Govorestat的快速前进道路”。 11月27日 产品：Orphan Pharmaceuticals 的 Rapiblyk 指示： 重症监护中的心颤 AOP Orphan Pharmaceuticals 获得了FDA对 Rapiblyk的批准，用于治疗重症监护中的心房颤动。 Rapiblyk 设计为静脉内给药，是一种超短效肾上腺素能受体阻滞剂，已知其活性会影响心率。根据AOP的说法，Rapiblyk具有“快速起效”，导致心率快速下降，而不会显着抑制患者的血压。 FDA的决定得到了五项随机安慰剂对照试验结果的支持，这些试验共同表明，给药后10分钟内心率降低40%至90%，而安慰剂组为0%至11%。不良事件在 Rapiblyk 治疗患者中比在安慰剂中更常见。 Rapiblyk 旨在用于急诊和重症监护科，以及手术和重症监护环境。但它不适用于治疗慢性心律失常。 11月 25日 产品：Shorla Oncology 的 Imkeldi 指示： 多种类型的白血病和其他癌症 FDA批准了 Shorla Oncology 的Imkeldi，这是一种口服溶液，用于治疗多种类型的慢性粒细胞白血病和急性淋巴细胞白血病，以及其他癌症，如骨髓增生异常/骨髓增生性疾病、侵袭性系统性肥大细胞增多症和隆起性皮肤纤维肉瘤。 Imkeldi中的活性成分伊马替尼是一种酪氨酸激酶抑制剂，通过阻断 BCR-ABL蛋白起作用，进而防止癌细胞不受控制地生长并触发其死亡。它最初于2001年获得批准，由诺华以 Gleevec 作为片剂销售。 与其他形式的伊马替尼相比，Imkeldi的液体制剂提供了更好的剂量准确性，首席执行官 Sharon Cunningham表示，这可以“确保更精确和一致的剂量”。Cunningham补充说，对于吞咽药片困难或需要根据受影响体表面积使用特定剂量的患者，Imkeldi 可以提供“复合的便捷替代方案”。 根据 Shorla的说法，Imkeldi是 FDA 批准的第一个用于某些白血病的伊马替尼口服液体制剂。 11月 22日 产品： BridgeBio 的 Attruby 指示： 转甲状腺素蛋白淀粉样变性心肌病 对于 BridgeBio和转甲状腺素蛋白淀粉样变性心肌病（ATTR-CM）患者来说，感恩节来得很早，因为FDA在预定的PDUFA日期前一周批准了该公司的Attruby。 Attruby 的批准得到了III期ATTRibute-CM的积极结果的支持，其中转甲状腺素蛋白稳定剂显着减少了死亡和心血管相关住院，并改善了生活质量。 根据BridgeBio发布的新闻稿，Attruby 是“第一个也是唯一一个标签上写明 TTR 几乎完全稳定的获批产品”。分析人士一致认为，该药物的广泛标签（说明降低住院和死亡的可能性）将有助于其与辉瑞的Tafamidis 和 Alnylam的Amvuttra竞争，后者的补充新药申请已于周一被FDA接受。 11月 22日 产品：Amneal Pharmaceuticals 的艾塞那肽 指示： Ⅱ型糖尿病 FDA批准了 Amneal Pharmaceuticals的艾塞那肽，与参比产品一样，Amneal 的仿制药适用于改善Ⅱ型糖尿病患者的血糖控制，并结合饮食和运动。仿制药艾塞那肽将提供1.2 mL和2.4mL预装注射笔。同样，这种仿制药与Byetta（属于阿斯利康）具有相同的不良反应，包括恶心、呕吐、头晕、腹泻和低血糖，以及其他常见的副作用。 Amneal 的艾塞那肽是“首批在美国获得批准的仿制药 GLP-1注射剂之一，”首席商务官 Andy Boyer 在一份声明中说。根据 Coherent Marketing Insights 的一份报告，到 2031年，GLP-1市场预计将达到557亿美元左右。目前，该领域由礼来和诺和诺德主导，它们分别销售Tirzepatide 和 Semaglutide，有效地垄断了GLP-1药物的糖尿病和肥胖市场。在美国以外，仿制药开发商已经开始威胁这些公司的利润，尤其是在中国和印度。 11月 21日 产品：Jazz 和 Zymeworks 的 Ziihera 指示： HER2 阳性胆道癌 随着FDA批准 Ziihera，Jazz Pharmaceuticals 和 Zymeworks 将与阿斯利康和第一三共针锋相对，后者的抗体-药物偶联物 Enhertu 于 2024年4月获得了与肿瘤无关的广泛批准。 Ziihera 是一种双特异性抗体，靶向HER2受体上的两个不重叠位点。这种独特的结合谱为 Ziihera 提供了多种作用机制，包括HER2信号传导的双重阻断和癌细胞表面HER2蛋白的去除。双特异性抗体还可以增强免疫系统的抗癌活性。 IIb期HERIZON-BTC-01研究数据报告称，接受 Ziihera 治疗的患者确认客观缓解率为41.3%，治疗缓解持续时间中位为12.9个月。至于安全性，中期试验发现 Ziihera 耐受性良好，只有两名患者因毒性而停止治疗。 Ziihera 已根据 FDA 的加速途径获得批准。为了保持其在市场上，Jazz和Zymeworks正在进行III 期HERIZON-BTC-302 验证性试验，该试验正在评估 Ziihera的一线治疗，联合化疗，联合或不联合 PD-(L)1抑制剂。 11月 20日 产品：UCB的Bimzelx 指示： 中度至重度化脓性汗腺炎 UCB 周三获得了FDA的批准，使用其皮下注射 Bimzelx（Bimekizumab-bkzx）治疗患有中度至重度化脓性汗腺炎的成年患者。 Bimzelx是一种人源化IgG1单克隆抗体，旨在靶向IL-17A和IL-17F细胞因子，已知它们在免疫和炎症级联反应中起关键作用。2023年10月，FDA 批准 Bimzelx用于患有中度至重度斑块状银屑病的成年患者，并于2024 年9月将其标签扩大到包括银屑病关节炎、强直性脊柱炎和非放射学中轴型脊柱关节炎。 该批准得到了两项 III 期研究——BE HEARD I 和 BE HEARD II 的数据的支持。综上所述，这些试验的结果表明，与安慰剂相比，更多接受Bimzelx治疗的患者在16周时化脓性汗腺炎的体征和症状至少改善了50%。这种治疗反应在48周的随访中得以维持。Bimzelx还在几个关键的次要结局中诱导了具有临床意义的改善。 据 UCB 称，Bimzelx 是第一个也是迄今为止唯一一个获批准的选择性阻断 IL-17A 和 IL-17A 的疗法。 11月 20日 产品：安斯泰来的Izervay 指示： 继发于年龄相关性黄斑变性(AMD）的地图样萎缩 FDA 周二拒绝了安斯泰来制药在其眼部注射剂 Izervay（Avacincaptad pegol 玻璃体内溶液）标签上包含两年数据的提议。 Izervay是一种聚乙二醇化寡核苷酸，通过靶向和禁用C5补体蛋白发挥作用，从而解决年龄相关性黄斑变性（AMD）的根本原因。它于 2023 年被批准用于治疗继发于 AMD 的地图样萎缩（GA），但其目前仅建议治疗长达12个月。 2024年4月，安斯泰来向FDA 提交了一份补充新药申请，寻求在 Izervay的标签中增加两年数据。该制药公司使用了III 期 GATHER2 试验的结果，该试验表明，与假对照相比，Izervay在 24 个月内继续减少GA病变的生长。在周二的完整回复信中，FDA重点关注安斯泰来提议的“与标签语言相关的统计问题”。两年来，监管机构没有发现Izervay的安全性或收益/风险状况存在任何问题。根据其新闻稿，该制药公司目前正在“寻求对拒绝的进一步澄清”，以期迅速解决 FDA的疑问。 11月 15日 产品：Syndax Pharmaceuticals 的 Revuforj 指示： 赖氨酸甲基转移酶 2A 基因易位的复发或难治性急性白血病 Syndax Pharmaceuticals的Revuforj（Revumenib）成为市场上第一个用于治疗复发或难治性急性白血病的Menin抑制剂，当时 FDA 批准其用于携带赖氨酸甲基转移酶 2A （KMT2A）基因易位突变的成人或儿童患者。 在急性白血病中，KMT2A 基因重排与更具侵袭性的疾病有关，这些疾病的特点是复发率高和预后非常差。据 Syndax 称，在具有 KMT2A 重排突变的患者中，大约一半会在常规治疗后复发。几乎所有的 KMT2A 重排都被归类为易位突变，它产生与 Menin蛋白结合的融合蛋白，从而引发白血病的发展。 Revuforj 的批准得到了I/II 期 AUGMENT-101 研究中104名患者数据的支持，其中 21% 的接受治疗的患者达到完全缓解或完全缓解但血液学部分恢复。这种类型的治疗反应的中位持续时间为 6.4个月。 Syndax 预计将于本月在美国推出 110 mg和 160 mg的Revuforj片剂。同时，可用于年轻患者或体重低于40 kg的患者的25 mg剂量将于明年第一季度末或第二季度初上市。 11月 14日 产品：Azurity Pharmaceuticals 的Danziten 指示： 新诊断的费城染色体阳性慢性粒细胞白血病 Azurity Pharmaceuticals获得了FDA对口服Danziten（尼罗替尼）的首个批准，没有用餐时间限制。 尼罗替尼是一种口服 BCR-ABL 激酶抑制剂，通过阻止癌细胞的生长和增殖起作用，进而诱导其死亡。尼罗替尼曾以品牌Tasigna获得批准，该商品名由诺华拥有和销售，适用于费城染色体阳性慢性粒细胞白血病。然而，根据Azurity的说法，Tasigna的生物利用度在与食物一起服用时会飙升，并可能导致心脏副作用。服用Tasigna的患者在服药前通常需要严格禁食，以避免这些毒性。作为一种解决方法，Azurity重新设计了尼罗替尼以生产 Danziten，其生物利用度比Tasigna更高，可以减少剂量并消除进餐时间限制的要求。 11月 12日 产品：Intercept Pharmaceuticals 的 Ocaliva 指示：原发性胆汁性胆管炎 在最初推迟了上个月的决定后，FDA 拒绝完全批准 Intercept Pharmaceuticals 的 Ocaliva（奥贝胆酸）用于原发性胆汁性胆管炎（PBC）。 Ocaliva是一种类硒砜X受体激动剂，于2016年5月获得 FDA对PBC的加速批准。然而，在2024年9月，监管机构的胃肠道药物咨询委员会几乎一致投票反对这种口服药物，并指出Intercept没有提供足够的数据来支持Ocaliva的临床收益。在小组讨论前发布的一份简报文件中，FDA 的内部审查员表示，Ocaliva 在其一项验证性试验中“未能证明疗效”。 在周二的完整回复信中，FDA 表示，它正在继续审查其一项验证性研究中Ocaliva的安全数据。与此同时，Intercept声称，该药物仍将在其加速批准状态下提供给PBC患者。 11 月 8 日 产品：Autolus Therapeutics 的 Aucatzyl 指示：B 细胞急性淋巴细胞白血病 在FDA批准了用于治疗成人复发或难治性B细胞急性淋巴细胞白血病（ALL）后，Aucatzyl 加入了已批准的CAR-T疗法名单。 Autolus 用 II 期FELIX 研究的数据支持Aucatzyl，该研究显示总体完全缓解率为63%，其中包括51%的患者达到完全缓解。Aucatzyl的优势在于它的安全性，细胞因子释放综合征和3级毒性的发生率较低，并且没有4级或5级不良事件。 “我们仍然相信 Aucatzyl更耐受的安全性将使其成为成人ALL患者的首选治疗选择，并随着时间的推移支持大多数市场份额，”William Blair 分析师 Matt Phipps 在周五的一份报告中表示。Aucatzyl 是第一个在没有风险评估缓解策略计划要求的情况下获得批准的 CAR- T疗法。 11月 4日 产品：Journey Medical的Emrosi 指示：酒糟鼻的炎性病变 “红斑痤疮是一种难以治疗的皮肤病，根据我们Ⅲ期临床试验的良好结果，Emrosi有可能成为治疗该病症的同类最佳口服药物，”总部位于亚利桑那州的Journey Medical首席执行官 Claude Maraoui 在一份声明中说。 Emrosi的批准得到了两项 III 期试验的支持，其中治疗达到所有共同主要和次要终点。据 Journey Medical 报道，Emrosi在两项试验中都显示出优于当前标准护理治疗（Oracea 40mg胶囊）和安慰剂的“统计学显着优势”，用于研究者的整体评估治疗成功和炎症病灶总数的减少。 Ref:https://www.biospace.com/biospace-fda-decision-tracker 药事纵横征稿启事

TORL BioTherapeutics , the antibody-drug conjugate startup led by former Celgene chief Mark Alles , has brought aboard a chief medical officer with big pharma chops. Aran Maree will be overseeing clinical development at the Los Angeles biotech, born out of Herceptin founder Dennis Slamon ’s lab at UCLA. Maree departs a nearly 20-year career at Johnson & Johnson , where he was chief medical officer of the medtech unit before stepping into the same post at the pharmaceuticals division, which was recently renamed J&J Innovative Medicine . The J&J veteran’s move over to TORL comes as the biotech is just weeks into its first potentially registrational trial in CLDN6 positive platinum-resistant ovarian cancer. The well-funded startup is testing an ADC called TORL-1-23. The pipeline also contains early-stage ADCs against CLDN18.2, CDH17 and DLK1. Other immunotherapies are also in the works. Alles and crew raised a $158 million round in April 2023 . Almost a year to the day, they raised another round of the exact same size. They’ve kept a low profile the entire time, wishing not to speak with the news media. — Kyle LaHucik → Samsung Bioepis has promoted Kyung-Ah Kim to president and CEO, becoming the first female exec in the Samsung universe to hold this title that isn’t part of the founding family. Kim has worked at the biosimilar maker since 2015 and had been development division leader for the past three years. Her predecessor, Christopher Hansung Ko , was CEO since its founding in February 2012 and will be the new leader of Samsung’s Future Business Division. The FDA approved Samsung Bioepis’ Soliris biosimilar Epysqli in July, and the company will soon launch its Stelara biosimilar in the US. → Iskra Reic will lead AstraZeneca ’s China business as EVP of international. She’ll take over for detained exec Leon Wang while he is still under investigation in China, a market that CEO Pascal Soriot called “an important part of innovation in the industry” last month. Reic is a 23-year AstraZeneca vet who ran the vaccines and immune therapies unit after a stint as EVP for Europe and Canada. → On the same day President-elect Donald Trump nominated Marty Makary to lead the FDA, a commish from his first administration picked up a board seat. Stephen Hahn — the current CEO of Flagship company Harbinger Health — has joined the board at Faeth Therapeutics , a cancer startup that lists Sid Mukherjee and Lewis Cantley as founders. Faeth has also appointed Rivus Pharmaceuticals CEO and ex- Aimmune boss Jayson Dallas to the board. “Faeth’s approach of leveraging metabolic research in combination with AI has opened up metabolism as a new pillar in the treatment of cancer,” Hahn said in a statement . → Franklin Biolabs , a contract research organization that Jim Wilson founded after leaving his leadership post at the University of Pennsylvania’s Gene Therapy Program, has installed a CEO. Vatsala Naageshwaran got promoted to head of business development for US CGT & lab services for Pharmaron and had a long career with Absorption Systems before it was sold to Pharmaron in late 2020. Brazilian health research institute Fiocruz made a commitment of up to $100 million for Wilson’s other venture, GEMMABio , in an effort to make gene therapies more accessible globally. → Scott Wolchko will retire as president and CEO of Fate Therapeutics on Jan. 1, and R&D chief Bob Valamehr will take over, according to a Black Friday release . Wolchko was the San Diego biotech’s first CFO and vaulted to the top spot in 2015, succeeding former Escient Pharmaceuticals chief Christian Weyer . Valamehr has led R&D since 2018 and his promotion will coincide with his 15th anniversary at the company. You may recall that Fate, which has several CAR-T and CAR NK candidates in its pipeline, ended its development deal with J&J in January 2023 and subsequently laid off nearly half of its employees. → Paragon Therapeutics continues to churn out public biotechs — and now has a CEO at the mother ship. Susanna High is the former COO of bluebird bio and, more recently, Dyne Therapeutics . She also had several roles that spanned more than nine years at Alnylam , including SVP, strategy and business integration. Two Paragon companies — Jade Biosciences and Crescent Biopharma — reverse merged their way onto the Nasdaq in October, and Oruka Therapeutics did the same in April. → Volker Herrmann is out as CEO of Flagship’s Sonata Therapeutics , and about 20 other staffers have also been let go, Fierce Biotech reported. Flagship brought two of its companies together, Inzen Therapeutics and Cygnal Therapeutics , to form Sonata two years ago. Herrmann had led Inzen, while Cygnal chief Pearl Huang eventually took the CEO job at Dunad Therapeutics . Herrmann spent more than 15 years at Pfizer and joined Flagship from SQZ Biotechnologies , where he was COO for nearly two years. → Arcutis Biotherapeutics medical chief Patrick Burnett and chief commercial officer Todd Edwards have both been promoted to EVP, and Kent Taylor has been elevated to SVP of sales. Burnett is a Novartis vet who left Verrica Pharmaceuticals to take the CMO job at Arcutis in August 2020; Peer Review informed you about Edwards’ appointment in September 2023, when he took over for Ken Lock after three years with Incyte ; and Taylor — an Incyte vet in his own right — followed Edwards two months later as VP of sales. → OSE Immunotherapeutics co-founder Dominique Costantini is retiring at the end of the year. The French I/O and I&I player has selected Fiona Olivier as chief corporate affairs and investor relations officer, and research head Aurore Morello earns a spot on the executive committee. Costantini, the former CEO who also chaired the board at OSE, had been director of development and strategy. “Many of us have benefited from Dominique’s mentorship and guidance over the years and we have grown stronger as a result,” CEO Nicolas Poirier said in a statement . Olivier spent more than three years with Sanofi as global head of corporate affairs for the General Medicines division. She had several job titles over an eight-year period at AbbVie , including head of global patient relations and international public affairs. → CAR-T cell therapy developer AffyImmune has recruited Deyaa Adib as CMO. Adib just had a very short stay at FibroGen and has also held this position at Triumvira Immunologics . AffyImmune, a company in ORI Capital ’s portfolio, is under new management for the second time this year — in July, Daniel Janse took over for Matt Britz as CEO. Britz had been elevated to the top spot in March after two years as operating chief. → At another CAR-T shop, ex- Bellicum and Artiva Biotherapeutics CEO Tom Farrell has been named president of Shanghai-based Oricell . “Tom is a transformative leader who has consistently delivered results. We believe he will undoubtedly accelerate our clinical development momentum in the US,” CEO Helen Yang said in a statement . Oricell raised a $45 million Series B1 in February 2023 on top of a $120 million haul. → Merck ’s macrocyclic peptide partner Unnatural Products has tapped Simon Bailey as COO and president of R&D. Bailey left protein degradation biotech Plexium in March after more than four years as head of drug discovery and was SVP of research for Intercept from 2016-19. His 20-year career with Pfizer culminated in his role as senior director for worldwide medicinal chemistry in oncology. → Iovance Biotherapeutics has promoted Raj Puri to chief regulatory officer. Puri spent two decades as a director at CBER in the Office of Tissues and Advanced Therapies before coming to Iovance in March 2022 as EVP, regulatory strategy and translational medicine. Iovance fought through multiple delays to receive the first-ever FDA approval for a tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte with its cell therapy Amtagvi . → Synthetic cell specialist Slingshot Biosciences has welcomed Nimisha Srivastava as COO. Srivastava held a number of roles over a decade at Twist Bioscience , where she was VP of engineering and eventually head of R&D. Slingshot also said last month that it had named Tiffany Salas-Morris as chief commercial officer. → Sapience Therapeutics , which is testing its beta-catenin antagonist ST316 in colorectal cancer patients, has recruited Augustine Bourne as VP, business development. He previously worked for Mirati as its business development and corporate strategy leader when Bristol Myers Squibb purchased the Krazati maker for $4.8 billion. In other Sapience news, ex- Replimune CBO Pamela Esposito now has a seat on its board of directors. → Swiss cancer vaccine developer Nouscom has recruited Grünenthal and MorphoSys alum Eckhard Niemeier as CBO. Niemeier just ended a three-year run as business chief at Danish biotech Union Therapeutics , and he was head of business development & portfolio management for Pieris Pharmaceuticals . “Cancer vaccines are, let’s say, back in fashion,” Nouscom CEO Marina Udier told Endpoints News in November 2023, when the biotech announced its Series C funding. → Incendia Therapeutics has appointed Bradford Smith as its first finance chief. Smith has previously been CFO for a number of companies, including Homology Medicines , Ocular Therapeutix , OmniGuide , NeuroMetrix and Synarc . Smith also sits on the boards of Lyra Therapeutics and eGenesis . → Massachusetts-based ITF Therapeutics has recruited Erica Monaco as COO. Monaco joins with previous COO experience from Medicus Pharma and Biofrontera , where she also served as CEO and CFO). Earlier in her career, Monaco was with Sun Pharmaceuticals and Deloitte . → Portuguese CRO FairJourney Biologics has brought aboard Marc van Dijk as CSO, responsible for the company’s antibody discovery and engineering divisions. Dijk also served in the role at MiNK Therapeutics , and earlier in his career, Dijk was with Genmab as VP of antibody technology and chief technology officer at 4-Antibody and Agenus . → CRISPR Therapeutics veteran Chris Gemmiti has landed at Cellino as SVP of therapeutics development. Gemmiti was in charge of CMC for Casgevy , CRISPR and Vertex ’s sickle cell gene therapy, and became VP of technical operations in April 2022. Cellino recently caught our attention by appointing Recursion CEO Chris Gibson to its board of directors. → Looking for the next breakthrough in psychedelic therapy, MindMed has hired yet another exec, bringing in Javier Muniz as VP of research and development strategy. He just finished up a 10-year career with the FDA, where he was associate director for therapeutic review in the agency’s Division of Psychiatry within the Office of Neuroscience. This is MindMed’s third notable leadership move in the past few months, following the additions of chief regulatory and quality assurance officer Gregg Pratt and corporate affairs chief Stephanie Fagan . → Former Bristol Myers exec Kristen Hege leads a new crop of clinical advisory board members at Gilead ’s cancer partner Cartography Biosciences . Kevin Parker ’s crew has also welcomed Affini-T Therapeutics CMO Dirk Nagorsen , UCSF’s Bridget Keenan and Josep Tabernero from the Vall d´Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona. → Beam Therapeutics has added Chirfi Guindo to the board of directors. Guindo had a 27-year career with Merck before joining Biogen in 2017, then returned to Merck in July 2022 as chief marketing officer for the Human Health division. Click here for Andrew Dunn’s Slack interview from February with CEO John Evans , who also spoke to Endpoints for an early look at Beam’s gene-edited sickle cell data. → Ex- Decibel Therapeutics CEO Laurence Reid has sewn up a spot on the board of directors at hereditary angioedema biotech KalVista Pharmaceuticals . Reid sold Decibel to Regeneron for $109 million in August 2023 and chairs the board at Broken String Biosciences . The FDA has assigned a June 17 decision date for KalVista’s HAE drug sebetralstat . → Backed by The Column Group , 8VC and others, California ADC developer Hexagon Bio has elected Ideaya Biosciences CEO Yujiro Hata to its board of directors. This was Hexagon’s first press release of any kind since its $77 million Series B in February 2023. → Longtime EY vet Fran Schulz has joined the board of directors at Tim Lu ’s Senti Bio , as Seer chief Omid Farokhzad exits. Shares $SNTI went through the roof on Monday, rising more than 600% and settling on a 363% jump after Senti Bio disclosed Phase 1 data for its CAR-NK cell therapy SENTI-202 . → Day One Biopharmaceuticals co-founder and R&D leader Sam Blackman is headed to the board of directors at Bonum Therapeutics , the Seattle-based I/O biotech that sprouted from Good Therapeutics and nabbed a $93 million Series A two years ago. Blackman will retire from Day One at the end of the year. → Rare disease AI company Healx has named Abcam founder Jonathan Milner as non-executive chairman, taking over from co-founder David Brown , who will remain on the board. Despite Milner’s opposition , Abcam completed its acquisition of Danaher exactly one year ago.