BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics Inc. announced the appointment of Kirk Taylor, M.D., as Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer (EVP, CMO), effective May 1, 2023. Dr. Taylor will serve on BrainStorm's executive leadership team reporting to Stacy Lindborg, Ph.D., co-CEO of BrainStorm. Dr. Taylor will lead the global medical affairs function and launch activities, including product launches, post-approval commercialization efforts and deepening relationships with the medical community.

He will also support clinical development and overall corporate strategy, including advancement of the Company's long-term business model. Dr. Taylor has more than 26 years of experience in global drug development programs, from Phase 1 through post-approval studies, across multiple therapeutic areas including neurology and rare diseases. He is joining BrainStorm from EMD Serono (a Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany company), where, as Senior Vice President, North American Medical Affairs, he led the medical team's efforts across four therapeutic areas and the launch of three new treatments.

Prior to EMD Serono, Dr. Taylor served as Senior Vice President, Medical Affairs Strategy and Operations at Verastem Oncology and CMO and Chief of Strategy and Late Phase Development at Finch Therapeutics Group, where he created a plan for filing and commercializing the company's internal assets. Earlier in his career, Dr. Taylor held high-prominent medical roles at companies such as Biogen, Pfizer and Sanofi-Genzyme. Dr. Taylor holds a B.A. from Harvard University and a M.D. from University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University.

He completed a neurology residency at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a postdoctoral fellowship in pain management at the University of California, San Francisco. He taught pain management to neurology residents while on faculty at Yale VA Hospital for two years. He also completed executive leadership training at Harvard, Stanford and INSEAD business schools.