Published: May 13, 2021 By Alex Keown
Akouos, Inc. – Kathy Reape was named chief development officer of Boston-based Akouos. Reape most recently served as chief medical officer at Spark Therapeutics where she oversaw clinical development, pharmacovigilance, and medical affairs activities. Reape was a key member of the team responsible for the development and commercialization of Luxturna, the first FDA-approved in vivo gene therapy approved for an inherited retinal disease caused by mutations in both copies of the RPE65 gene. Prior to Spark, Reape was senior vice president of clinical development focusing on global brands research and development at Allergan and Actavis.
CARMAT – France-based CARMAT’s board of directors is reorganizing its governance and appointed three new directors. The company tapped Florent Battistella, David Coti and John B. Hernandez as directors. Battistella founded Nisima, a holding company, which holds stakes in various firms, notably
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OSLO, Norway, May 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Hemispherian AS ( Hemispherian or the Company ), an innovative Norwegian preclinical pharmaceutical company focused on epigenetic therapeutics for the treatment of cancer, is delighted to announce the formation of its Clinical Advisory Board (CAB) by appointing as Chairman Dr Roger Stupp, Chief of Neuro-Oncology in the Department of Neurology and Paul C Bucy Professor of Neurological Surgery at Northwestern University Chicago and as members Dr. Michael Lim, Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at Stanford University; Dr. Monika Hegi Head of the Laboratory of Brain Tumour Biology and Genetics at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV) in Lausanne; and Dr. Einar O. Vik-Mo, Head of the Surgical Neuro-Oncology section at Oslo University Hospital. The advisory board – comprising leading experts in their fields and having significant experience with novel technologies and their translat