Immunic, Inc. Appoints Tamara A. Seymour as its Interim Chief Financial Officer
April 29, 2019 at 11:48 am
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Immunic, Inc. announced the appointment of Tamara A. Seymour, MBA, as its Interim Chief Financial Officer, effective April 26, 2019. Ms. Seymour is a corporate finance veteran with three decades of experience in the biotech and life sciences industries. Since 2018, Ms. Seymour has served as a financial advisor, assisting life sciences companies with merger and acquisition activities and other finance-related needs. From 2014 to 2017, she served as Chief Financial Officer of Signal Genetics Inc.
Immunic, Inc. is a biotechnology company. The Company is focused on developing a clinical pipeline of orally administered, small molecule therapies for chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The Companyâs s lead development program, vidofludimus calcium (IMU-838), is in phase III and phase II clinical trials for the treatment of relapsing and progressive multiple sclerosis, respectively, and has shown therapeutic activity in phase II clinical trials in patients suffering from relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis, progressive multiple sclerosis, and moderate-to-severe ulcerative colitis. IMU-856, which targets the protein Sirtuin 6 (SIRT6), is intended to restore intestinal barrier function and regenerate bowel epithelium, which could potentially be applicable in numerous gastrointestinal diseases, such as celiac disease. IMU-381 is in preclinical testing, a next generation molecule being developed to specifically address the needs of gastrointestinal diseases.