Calliditas Therapeutics AB announced that Maria Törnsén has been appointed to the position of President North America. Ms Törnsén will be responsible for all US based operations and will report to the CEO. Maria Törnsén has broad commercial leadership experience having spent more than 20 years in the biopharma industry in senior commercial roles.

Most recently Ms Törnsén held the position of Chief Commercial Officer at Passage Bio, prior to which she was SVP General Manager US at Sarepta Therapeutics. Prior to joining Sarepta she served as VP Global Therapeutic Area Head at Sanofi Genzyme and held several senior commercial roles at Shire including VP Head of US Sales. Ms Törnsén will replace Mr. Andrew Udell, who has held the position since 2020.