Lumos Pharma, Inc. Appoints Mark Bach to the Company’s Clinical Scientific Advisory Board
July 27, 2021 at 01:48 am IST
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Lumos Pharma, Inc. announced that Mark Bach accepted his appointment to the Company’s Clinical Scientific Advisory Board (CSAB) effective July 15, 2021. Dr. Bach is currently the Chief Medical Officer for ShouTi Inc., having recently joined from Ascendis Pharma where he served as Senior Vice President, Endocrine Medical Sciences. Dr. Bach is a pediatric endocrinologist with 30 years of clinical research and pharmaceutical development experience, including extensive global experience building and leading clinical teams that have successfully launched innovative pharmaceutical products into worldwide markets. Prior to Ascendis, Dr. Bach spent nine years at Janssen, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, where he held successive leadership roles in research and development, culminating in the position of Head of Asia Pacific Medical Sciences and Head of China R&D. Prior to Janssen, Dr. Bach held positions of increasing responsibility in Clinical Research at Merck & Co., Inc., ending his tenure there as Vice President of Clinical Research Operations Worldwide. Early in his career, Dr. Bach conducted extensive clinical and preclinical research on growth hormone, IGF-1 and LUM-201 (MK-0677), with data from this work published in scientific and medical journals.
Lumos Pharma, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. The Company is engaged in advancing its clinical program and focused on identifying, acquiring, developing, and commercializing products and new therapies for people with rare diseases. Its pipeline is focused on the development of an orally administered small molecule, LUM-201, which is a growth hormone (GH) secretagogue, also called ibutamoren, for rare endocrine disorders that require injectable recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH). LUM-201 is a tablet formulation that is intended to be administered once daily. LUM-201 stimulates GH via the GH secretagogue receptor (GHSR1a), also known as the ghrelin receptor, and also suppresses the release of somatostatin, thus providing a differentiated mechanism of action to treat some rare endocrine disorders (involving a deficiency of GH) by increasing the amplitude of endogenous, pulsatile GH secretion. Lumos Pharma Sub, Inc. (Private Lumos) is its subsidiary.
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