Artelo Biosciences, Inc. Appoints Gregory R. Reyes to the Company’s Board of Directors
December 02, 2020 at 07:00 pm IST
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Artelo Biosciences, Inc. announced the appointment of drug discovery and development veteran Gregory R. Reyes, M.D., Ph.D. to the Company’s Board of Directors, effective November 30, 2020. Dr. Reyes brings 35 years of experience in biotech and large pharma to Artelo. Currently he is co-founder and Board member of San Diego-based Orox Biosciences. Previously, he was Senior Vice President, Drug Discovery & Site Head at Celgene San Diego, led the Oncology franchise at Biogen Idec, headed Discovery Biology at the Pfizer Ann Arbor campus, and oversaw Tumor Biology and Infectious Diseases at Schering-Plough Research Institute. Over the course of his career, Dr. Reyes and his teams advanced more than 50 small molecules and biologics from discovery into preclinical and clinical development. One of these was Merck’s (Schering-Plough) Victrelis™ (boceprevir) which was approved as one of the first small molecule antiviral treatments for chronic hepatitis C and which received the 2012 Prix Galien Award along with Vertex’s Incivek™ as the ‘best pharmaceutical agent’ in both the UK and US. Dr. Reyes obtained his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees through the Medical Scientist Training Program at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He completed his medical and postdoctoral training at Stanford University Hospital, where he was awarded a Damon Runyon Cancer Research Fellowship for studies at Stanford’s Cancer Biology Research Lab. He has nearly 100 scientific publications and 50 US and foreign patents and applications. Dr. Reyes currently serves as advisor to Cancer Research UK’s New Agents Committee and previously served on NIH’s National Advisory General Medical Sciences Council, and the Standing Review Committee for the Research Centers in Minority Institutions, National Center for Research Resources.
Artelo Biosciences, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. The Company is focused on the development of therapeutics that target lipid-signaling pathways, including the endocannabinoid system (ECS), a family of receptors and neurotransmitters that form a biochemical communication network throughout the body. It is developing a dual cannabinoid (CB) agonist that targets both the CB1 and CB2 receptors. This synthetic small molecule program is a G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) designated ART27.13. ART27.13 is a potential treatment for anorexia associated with cancer. Its second program ART26.12, is a small molecule lead product candidate from its platform of inhibitors of fatty acid binding proteins, notably Fatty Acid Binding Protein 5 (FABP5), which is undergoing pre-clinical research as a potential cancer therapeutic, for pain and inflammation, and in anxiety-related disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder.
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