LogicBio Therapeutics, Inc. announced the promotion of Daniel Gruskin, MD, as chief medical officer. Dr. Gruskin most recently served as senior vice president and head of clinical development. The Company also announced the appointment of Stephen Boyer, PhD, as vice president of regulatory and quality affairs, and Peter Pechan, PhD, as vice president of gene therapy, who will support progress in the Phase I/II SUNRISE clinical trial of LB-001, the Company's investigational treatment for methylmalonic acidemia (MMA) based on LogicBio's proprietary gene insertion platform, GeneRide™, and gene therapy programs leveraging the Company's sAAVy™ platform. Dr. Gruskin joined LogicBio Therapeutics as senior vice president and head of clinical development in August 2020 after working several months with the Company as interim head of clinical development and as a consultant. Previously, he held roles of increasing responsibility at Sanofi Genzyme, most recently as vice president, head of global medical affairs, rare disease, in which he oversaw medical affairs, life cycle management, scientific affairs and other medical and development activities related to metabolic, rare and genetic diseases. Prior to Sanofi Genzyme, Dr. Gruskin was assistant professor, human genetics and pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine and chief of the genetics section at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. He received his MD from the Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine. Dr. Boyer has more than 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry both in regulatory development and preclinical research, most recently serving as head of regulatory at Boston Pharmaceuticals. Previously, he served as head of early global regulatory strategy at Biogen where he was responsible for the early development asset portfolio including cell and gene therapy programs. Prior to Biogen, he was a global regulatory team leader for the HCV-TRIO regimen at Bristol Myers Squibb. Dr. Boyer also was a medicinal chemist at Boehringer-Ingelheim and Bayer, and his work contributed to the discovery of Stivarga® (regorafenib) and telatinib. He received his PhD in organic chemistry from the University of California Berkeley. Dr. Pechan has more than 20 years of industry experience in gene therapy including roles in the design, engineering and production of adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors. Most recently, he served as senior director of R&D and head of vector biology at Solid Biosciences. Before that, he served as director, head of vector production and process development/R&D at Voyager Therapeutics and director, head of gene transfer technologies in the gene therapy department at Biogen. Prior to Biogen, he spent 15 years at Genzyme (now Sanofi Genzyme) where he generated an experimental drug candidate for the Company's first gene therapy clinical trial in ophthalmology. Dr. Pechan received his PhD in molecular biology from the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen in Germany.