Vincerx Pharma, Inc. announced the formation of its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) composed of world leading academics and industry leaders in cancer research and therapeutics. John C. Byrd, M.D., will serve as Chairman of the SAB. Company’s SAB is comprised of: John C. Byrd, M.D. – Chairman: Dr. Byrd is an internationally known researcher and clinical specialist in leukemia and other hematologic malignancies at Ohio State’s Comprehensive Cancer Center – James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute, where he serves as Senior Advisor for Cancer Experimental Therapeutics. He is a Distinguished University Professor of Medicine and Medicinal Chemistry and holds the D. Warren Brown Chair in Leukemia Research. Dr. Byrd is also the Chief Medical Officer for the Beat AML trial. Howard A. “Skip” Burris III, M.D., FASCO, FACP: Dr. Burris serves as President and Chief Medical Officer of Sarah Cannon, as well as the Executive Director, drug development for Sarah Cannon Research Institute. He is an associate of Tennessee Oncology, PLLC, where he practices medical oncology. Dr. Burris completed his undergraduate education at the United States Military Academy at West Point, his medical degree at the University of South Alabama, and his internal medicine residency and oncology fellowship at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. He also served as the Director of Clinical Research at The Institute for Drug Development of the Cancer Therapy and Research Center and The University of Texas Health Science Center. Gerard Evan, Ph.D.: Dr. Evan is the Sir William Dunn Professor and Head of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge. Prior to Cambridge, he was the Gerson and Barbara Bass Bakar Distinguished Professor of Cancer Research at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Evan was elected to the European Academy of Cancer Sciences in 2013, and the Academy of the American Association for Cancer Research in 2019. Ian W. Flinn, M.D., Ph.D.: Dr. Flinn is an internationally recognized clinical investigator whose research focuses on the development of new therapies for patients with lymphoma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia. This research includes first in human to Phase 3 trials with novel approaches such as immune effector cell therapies, inhibitors of the B cell receptor pathway, and BCL-2 inhibitors amongst others. Dr. Flinn also serves as the director for the Sarah Cannon Center for Blood Cancer at Tennessee Oncology. Andre Goy, M.D., M.S.: Dr. Goy is an internationally renowned clinician and researcher of all types of lymphoma, including Hodgkin’s disease, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma including aggressive lymphoma and mantle cell lymphoma, and HIV-associated lymphoma. As Physician in Chief for Hackensack Meridian Health Oncology Services and Chairman of John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center as well as Founding Chair of Oncology at the Hackensack Meridian Health School of Medicine, he leads New Jersey’s large program for research, treatment and management of lymphoma. He is also Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Rosa Lapalombella, Ph.D.: Dr. Lapalombella, Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University, has a strong history of translational medical research. Dr. Lapalombella earned her Ph.D. from the University of Bologna, Italy, and subsequently focused on translational research for hematologic cancers, especially leukemia, and conducted her postdoctoral training in the laboratory of John Byrd, M.D. at The Ohio State University. Prior to her current appointment, she completed four years of post-doctoral training, followed by two-year appointments as a Research Scientist with PI status and then served as a Research Assistant Professor. Anthony W. Tolcher, M.D., FRCPS(C), FACP: Dr. Tolcher is CEO and Founder of NEXT OncologyTM, San Antonio and Austin, Texas, a Phase I group that seeks to transform early clinical trials. Dr. Tolcher served as President and Co-Founder of START LLC from 2009-2018, one of the world’s large Clinical Phase I and early drug development operations in cancer medicine with 5 locations in San Antonio, Texas; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Madrid, Spain; and Shanghai, China. Dr. Tolcher is a medical oncologist who has over 25 years’ experience in early drug development and clinical trials.