– USA, CA – Aadi Bioscience, Inc. (NASDAQ: AADI), a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company, today announced the appointment of Dr. Mohammad Hirmand (M.D.) to its Board of Directors.
About Dr. Mohammad Hirmand
Dr. Hirmand has more than 20 years of biotechnology clinical development experience and recently served as executive vice president and chief medical officer for Turning Point Therapeutics, which was acquired by Bristol Myers Squibb for $4.1 billion in August 2022.
Dr. Hirmand is a co-founder of Avenzo Therapeutics, a privately held oncology company, and serves as its executive vice president and chief medical officer. Previously, Dr. Hirmand served as executive vice president and chief medical officer of Turning Point Therapeutics, a publicly traded precision oncology company, where he was responsible for all development functions from December 2019 until its acquisition by BMS in August 2022.
“I am excited to join Aadi’s Board of Directors in their mission to unlock the potential of nab-sirolimus in addressing mTOR-driven diseases,” said Dr. Hirmand. “Aadi’s PRECISION-1 trial studying nab-sirolimus in solid tumors with TSC1 and TSC2 inactivating alterations represents an exciting potential advancement in targeted oncology. I look forward to working with the outstanding Aadi team to transform the lives of patients living with cancer.”
Dr. Hirmand also served as chief medical officer of Peloton Therapeutics from 2017 until its acquisition by Merck & Co., Inc. in 2019. Dr. Hirmand served in various roles at Medivation, Inc., a publicly traded biotechnology company, from 2007 to 2017, including most recently as its chief medical officer, through its acquisition by Pfizer Inc. He has also held clinical development roles of increasing responsibility at Nuvelo, Inc. (now ARCA Biopharma), SuperGen, Inc. (now Astex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.), Tularik, Inc. (now part of Amgen), and Theravance Biopharma, Inc.
Dr. Hirmand received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and his B.A. in Biological Sciences and Economics from Cornell University.
About Aadi Bioscience, Inc.
Aadi is a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on precision therapies for genetically defined cancers to bring transformational therapies to cancer patients with mTOR pathway driver alterations. Aadi received FDA approval and has commercialized FYARRO® for the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced unresectable or metastatic malignant perivascular epithelioid cell tumors.
Aadi has also initiated PRECISION 1, a Phase 2 tumor-agnostic registration-intended trial in mTOR inhibitor-naïve malignant solid tumors harboring TSC1 or TSC2 inactivating alterations.
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