ImmuPharma plc announced the appointment of Dr. Laurence Reilly as Senior independent Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Audit Committee. Dr. Reilly brings extensive experience in managing late-stage clinical programs through to approval, in addition to commercial and business development experience. He is currently Vice President of Research & Investments, working with Royalty Pharma, a New York based life science investment company focussing on acquisition of biopharmaceutical royalties and funding of innovation across the biopharmaceutical industry.

Through his consulting practice (Acumen Life Science Investment Consulting) .Reilly has provided strategic consulting and due-diligence services to biotech companies, life science venture capital and private equity clients. He also served as Chief Medical Officer for Cellectar Biosciences, New Jersey, a late-stage oncology biotech company. Prior to founding his consulting practice, Dr. Reilly served as Chief Scientific Officer and Vice President at Avillion, a drug development company focused on the co-development and financing of drug candidates, where he was responsible for clinical and strategic oversight of co-development programs and partnering with both large pharma and biotech, including Pfizer, Merck KGaA and AstraZeneca.

Dr Reilly previously served as a Clinician - Clinical Development & Medical Oversight at Pfizer and at Lundbeck as Medical & Scientific Advisor. Dr Reilly earned his medical degree from the University of Liverpool Medical School, U.K., and practiced as Neurosurgery Resident at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Birmingham. Dr Reilly also holds a Masters Degree in Law from De Montfort University, U.K. The company also extremely welcomed DrSébastien Goudreau to the Board.

Dr Goudreau joined ImmuPharma in 2014 as research director and established the research laboratories of Ureka Pharma (now ImmuPharma Biotech, the Company's French subsidiary) in Bordeaux, being promoted in 2021 to Chief Executive Officer of ImmuPharma Biotech. Notably, working directly with Dr Tim Franklin (ImmuPharma COO), Dr Goudreau and his team are credited for the development of, among others, the Company's anti-infective programmes, BioAMBand BioCin. Dr Goudreau has also been a key contributor to the progression of the P140 autoimmune platform including the PK study, successfully concluded in 2022, and supported the new protocol design of the Phase 2/3 adaptive clinical studies for both Lupus and CIDP.

Dr Goudreau obtained his PhD in Chemistry at the Université of Montréal as a NSERC fellow before moving to Switzerland to conduct postdoctoral studies at the ETH Zürich as an FRQNT fellow. At this time, Dr Sanjeev Pandya, has informed the Board that he wishes to step down from his Non-Executive Director position, in order to pursue a number of other external opportunities. All Board changes take place with immediate effect.