Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc. Announces Executive Changes
February 01, 2021 at 04:05 pm
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Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc. announced the appointment of Rob Schott as Senior Vice President and Head of Development. Dr. Schott will lead clinical strategy across all phases of development and regulatory approval and will report to Sandy Macrae, Sangamo’s Chief Executive Officer. Sangamo also announced that, effective January 1, 2021, Jason Fontenot, PhD, has been promoted to Chief Scientific Officer. Dr. Fontenot has served as Sangamo’s Head of Cell Therapy since March 2019 and as the acting Interim Head of Research since June 2020. Prior to joining Sangamo, Dr. Schott served as the Chief Medical Officer at Chorus, an autonomous early-phase development engine inside of Eli Lilly, where he oversaw teams working to expand Eli Lilly’s pipeline.
Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc. is a genomic medicines company that is developing medicines for neurological diseases. The Company's neurology preclinical development is focused on two areas: development of epigenetic regulation therapies to treat serious neurological diseases, and development of novel engineered adeno-associated virus (AAV) capsids to deliver its therapies to the intended neurological targets. The Company's zinc finger epigenetic regulators are ideally suited to potentially address neurological disorders and its capsid discovery platform is expanding delivery beyond intrathecal delivery capsids, including in the central nervous system. Its clinical-stage product candidates are Isaralgagene civaparvovec, also known as ST-920, its wholly-owned gene therapy product candidate for the treatment of Fabry disease, and TX200, its wholly-owned CAR-Treg cell therapy product candidate for the prevention of immune-mediated rejection in HLA-A2 mismatched kidney transplantation.