BiomX Appoints Sailaja Puttagunta as Chief Medical Officer
December 11, 2018 at 06:00 pm IST
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BiomX Ltd. announced that it has appointed Dr. Sailaja Puttagunta, M.D., as its Chief Medical Officer (CMO). With her extensive experience in conducting Phase I to IV clinical trials, contributing to NDA submissions in anti-microbial disease areas and product launch preparations, Dr. Puttagunta will oversee BiomX's clinical development and strategy as the company prepares to enter the clinic with its Acne and Irritable Bowel Disease (IBD) programs. The company's Acne program is expected to enter the clinic in mid 2019, and the IBD program is expected to commence clinical trials in 2020. Dr. Puttagunta will be based in United States' East Coast and will work closely with BiomX's Israeli management. Dr. Sailaja Puttagunta, M.D., was most recently Vice President, Development at Iterum Therapeutics, a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing antibiotics against multi-drug resistant pathogens. Prior to Iterum, Dr. Puttagunta served as VP, Medical Affairs for Anti-infectives at Allergan from early 2015 and was the VP of Development and Medical Affairs at Durata Therapeutics Inc. prior to its acquisition by Actavis plc. From 2006 to 2012, Dr. Puttagunta led teams within clinical development and medical affairs on various antibiotic compounds at Pfizer Inc. Dr. Puttagunta has 20 years of clinical, academic and research experience in medicine and in the sub-specialty of infectious diseases. She graduated from Gandhi Medical College in Hyderabad, India and completed her residency in Internal Medicine and a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Yale University School of Medicine. She also holds an M.S. in Biochemistry from the New York University School of Medicine.
BiomX Inc., formerly Chardan Healthcare Acquisition Corp., is a microbiome company. The Company is focused on developing both natural and engineered phage therapies. It develops therapies to target and destroy bacteria that affect the appearance of skin, as well as harmful bacteria in chronic diseases, such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) and cancer. The Company discovers and validates bacterial targets and customizes phage compositions against the targets. Its pipeline includes BX001, BX002 and BX003. BX001 is a product candidate that improves the appearance of acne-prone skin. BX002 is a customized phage cocktail that eradicates bacterial targets associated with the onset of IBD. BX003 is a customized phage cocktail developed against specific strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae (Kp).
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