Voyager Therapeutics, Inc. Announces Board Elections
January 05, 2017 at 12:05 pm
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Voyager Therapeutics, Inc. announced the appointments of Wendy L. Dixon, Ph.D., and Glenn F. Pierce, M.D., Ph.D., to the company’s Board of Directors. Dr. Dixon brings over 35 years of global biopharmaceutical leadership experience where, as a senior executive, she combined her technical and commercial background to direct the development, launch and growth of over 20 new pharmaceutical products, including many highly successful multi-billion dollar global brands across multiple therapeutic areas including oncology, virology, immunology and neurology. Most recently, Dr. Dixon was a senior advisor to The Monitor Group, now Monitor Deloitte. Dr. Pierce serves as entrepreneur-in-residence at Third Rock Ventures, having joined the company in 2016 after more than 30 years of research and development experience working with biotechnology companies. Glenn retired from Biogen in 2014 where he most recently served as Chief Medical Officer leading the hematology, cell and gene therapies division.
Voyager Therapeutics, Inc. is a biotechnology company focused on advancing neurogenetic medicines. The Companyâs pipeline includes programs for Alzheimerâs disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Parkinsonâs disease, and multiple other diseases of the central nervous system. Many of its programs are derived from its TRACER AAV capsid discovery platform, which is used to generate novel capsids and identify associated receptors to potentially enable high brain penetration with genetic medicines following intravenous dosing. Its pipeline of programs, all of which are in preclinical development, include Anti-Tau Antibody (VY-TAU01), SOD1 Silencing Gene Therapy Program, Tau Silencing Gene Therapy Program, Vectorized Anti-Amyloid Antibody Early Research Program, Friedreichâs Ataxia Program: VY-FXN01, GBA1 Gene Replacement Program, HD Program, and others. VY-TAU01 is for the treatment of Alzheimerâs disease. SOD1 Silencing Gene Therapy Program is for the treatment of ALS.
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