GlycoMimetics, Inc. announced the appointment of Scott Koenig, M.D., Ph.D., to its Board of Directors. Dr. Koenig is President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of MacroGenics. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of the Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation. Previously, he was Senior Vice President of Research at MedImmune. Before that, he worked in the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ Laboratory of Immunoregulation. In addition to serving as Chair of the Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation, he also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) and the International Biomedical Research Alliance, and co-chairs the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) at the University of Maryland. Previously, he served as a member of the Scientific Management Review Board at the NIH, and of the Board of Directors of Children’s National Health System, where he was also the Chairman of the Board of the Children’s Research Institute. In addition to the appointment of Dr. Koenig, GlycoMimetics also announced that two of its long-standing Board members would be stepping down. Franklin Top, Jr., M.D., will not be running for re-election when his term expires after the Company’s upcoming Annual Meeting. John J. Baldwin, Ph.D., has also notified the Board of his intention to resign, effective after the GlycoMimetics Annual Meeting.
GlycoMimetics, Inc. is a late clinical-stage biotechnology company discovering and developing glycobiology-based therapies for cancers, including acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and for inflammatory diseases. It is developing a pipeline of glycomimetics, which are small molecules that mimic the structure of carbohydrates involved in biological processes, to inhibit disease-related functions of carbohydrates, such as the roles they play in inflammation, cancer and infection. Its drug candidates include Uproleselan, GMI-1687, Galectin Antagonists and GMI-1359. It is developing Uproleselan, a specific E-selectin antagonist, to be used in combination with chemotherapy to treat patients with AML, a life-threatening hematologic cancer, and potentially other hematologic cancers. It has designed an antagonist of E-selectin, GMI-1687, that is suitable for subcutaneous administration. GMI-1359 is a drug candidate that simultaneously targets both E-selectin and a chemokine receptor (CXCR4).
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