Synthorx Inc. announced the appointment of three key members to its management team. The new appointments are: Enoch Kariuki, Pharm.D., Senior Vice President, Corporate Development; Christian V. Kuhlen, J.D., M.D., General Counsel; and Charles M. Winter, Vice President, Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls (CMC). Each person brings years of valuable life science industry experience in strategy and financing, legal and corporate governance, and biologic manufacturing, respectively. Dr. Enoch Kariuki has significant experience in healthcare strategy, business development, and financing. He was most recently Vice President at H.I.G. Capital, where he focused on investments in life sciences companies. His previous roles include Senior Associate at Leerink Partners and Associate Director at UBS Investment Bank. At Leerink and UBS, Dr. Kariuki advised healthcare companies on equity capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, and recapitalizations. Dr. Kariuki did a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in R&D strategy at Bristol-Myers Squibb and was a Pharmacist at CVS Caremark. Dr. Christian V. Kuhlen has a depth and breadth of expertise as General Counsel for biotechnology companies, where he has been responsible for legal, SEC, human resources, intellectual property, and corporate governance functions. He has successfully managed a wide variety of financial transactions, including private financings, an initial public offering, and numerous follow-on offerings. Most recently, Dr. Kuhlen served as General Counsel and Secretary for Ignyta Inc., where he coordinated two public financings and advised on the company's acquisition by Roche. Before Ignyta, Dr. Kuhlen served as General Counsel, Vice President, and Corporate Secretary of Genoptix Inc., where he led the legal and corporate governance functions from its initial public offering to its successful acquisition by Novartis. Mr. Charles M. Winter has deep experience in advancing biologic manufacturing in all phases of the drug development pipeline, as well as important expertise in managing U.S. and ex-U.S. regulatory interactions. Prior to Synthorx, he was Head of Biologics CMC for the Denali Therapeutics pipeline. Before joining Denali, Mr. Winter was Vice President, Manufacturing and Technology at JHL Biotech, where he executed strategic deals for developing and manufacturing biologics in Taiwan and China. Previously at Gilead and at Genentech, Mr. Winter was a core member of a start-up team for a new GMP facility and developed processes for multiple investigational new drug applications.