SynAct Pharma AB announced the addition of three distinguished rheumatologists to its Rheumatology Clinical Advisory Board. The new Board members have agreed to join the panel to help guide SynAct in the development of resomelagon in RA and potentially other diseases. New members of SynAct?s Rheumatology Clinical Advisory Board: Roy Fleischmann, MD, MACR, Ravi Rao, MD, PhD and Vibeke Strand, MD, FACP, MACR.

Roy Fleischmann, MD, MACR ? Master of the American College of Rheumatology and a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Co- Medical Director of the Metroplex Clinical Research Center and Division of Rheumatology at the Presbyterian Medical Center in Dallas. He is an Overseas Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, a past President of the Texas Rheumatism Association, Division Director Rheumatology, St, Paul Medical Center.

He has been involved in the clinical development of most medications approved for rheumatic disease in the US. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed manuscripts and presented over 500 abstracts at major Rheumatology meetings on disease management and drug development. Ravi Rao, MD, PhD ?

Currently CMO at Sitryx Therapeutics and Venture Partner at SV Health Investors; previously a Consultant Rheumatologist at Imperial College NHS Trust, Roche: Medical Director, Immunology Clinical Development, GSK: VP, Global Medical Head, Immunology-inflammation and Future Pipeline Franchise, SOBI: Head R&D and CMO. Vibeke Strand, MD, FACP, MACR - Adjunct clinical professor in the Division of Immunology and Rheumatology at Stanford University School of Medicine since 1993, previously Assistant and Associate Clinical Professor of Rheumatology at UCSF. Since 1991, she has led a consulting practice offering clinical research and regulatory strategy expertise to pharmaceutical and biotech companies.

She has participated in the successful development of csDMARDs, biologics and JAK inhibitors in RA, including working with FDA, CDER, CBER and CDRH. She is a co-founder and member of the Executive Organizing Committee of the international Outcomes in Rheumatology [OMERACT] consensus conferences [1992 ? present] which develop and validate outcome measures for use in RCTs and longitudinal observational studies.

Vibeke Strand has authored > 500 peer-reviewed publications.