Gossamer Bio, Inc. Announces Chief Scientific Officer Changes, Effective April 30, 2021
April 20, 2021 at 05:20 pm IST
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Gossamer Bio, Inc. announced that Luisa Salter-Cid, Ph.D., Gossamer’s Chief Scientific Officer, is resigning from Gossamer effective April 30, 2021. On that date, Laura Carter, Ph.D., currently Gossamer’s Senior Vice President, Research & Translational Biology, will be promoted to Chief Scientific Officer. Dr. Salter-Cid has served as Chief Scientific Officer since joining Gossamer in September 2018 following a distinguished career at Bristol Myers Squibb. Dr. Carter has over 20 years of industry experience spanning target identification and validation activities through Phase 2 clinical trials in multiple therapeutic areas. Prior to joining Gossamer in 2019, she was Senior Vice President, Biology at Lycera Corporation, where she led the development of several immunology and immuno-oncology clinical product candidates.
Gossamer Bio, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. The Company is focused on the development and commercialization of seralutinib for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Its product candidate Seralutinib, also known as GB002, is an investigational inhaled, small molecule, platelet-derived growth factor receptor (PDGFR), colony-stimulating factor 1 receptor (CSF1R), and c-KIT inhibitor, being evaluated in a Phase III clinical trial for the treatment of PAH. In contrast to the three classes of marketed vasodilatory therapies for PAH, its seralutinib has the potential to reverse pathological remodeling by addressing mechanisms that underlie PAH. Inhaled seralutinib, which is designed to act on both isoforms of the PDGFR, α and β, as well as the CSF1R and c-KIT pathways. In addition to PAH, seralutinib holds the potential as a therapeutic option for the treatment of pulmonary hypertension associated with interstitial lung disease (PH-ILD).
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