– USA, CA – Aligos Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALGS), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel therapeutics to address unmet medical needs in viral and liver diseases, today announced the appointment of Dr. Bridget Martell (MA, M.D.) to its board of directors.
“We are pleased to welcome Dr. Martell to our board of directors. Her decades of experience in therapeutics development and leadership in biotechnology will be invaluable to the company as we continue to move our therapeutic candidates, including those for chronic hepatitis B and NASH, through the clinic,” said Chairman and CEO, Dr. Lawrence Blatt.
About Dr. Bridget Martell
Dr. Martell is an accomplished physician and biopharmaceutical executive who currently holds several executive and advisory roles, including as the President and CEO of Artizan Biosciences, a precision medicine microbiome company, a member of the Board of Directors at Achieve Life Sciences, and as a Venture Partner at AlleyCorp’s Healthcare Fund.
Dr. Martell brings extensive scientific acumen to her leadership roles and has been a pivotal leader or major contributor in the success of six marketed products: Kadcyla, Elelyso, Intermezzo, the trastuzumab biosimilar Ogivri, as well as secondary indications for Pradaxa and Sutent. She has held leadership and C-suite executive roles at companies including Kura Oncology, where she led the menin inhibitor program through a period of rapid growth and capital expansion, at Juniper Pharmaceuticals, where she led the development of unique combined drug/device technology that was out-licensed for $131M, and at Pfizer, where she had roles of increasing responsibility that included Clinical Team Leader for Sutent® GU solid tumors in the Oncology Business Unit and, ultimately, Biosimilars Medical Head.
She began her clinical investigation career at Yale with a Career Development Award, where she led a therapeutic cocaine vaccine trial and was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar. Dr. Martell was a practicing physician at Yale for 20 years and remains active as an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Office of Cooperative Research.
Dr. Martell said, “Having been on all sides of therapeutics development, from bench to bedside, I feel that Aligos has developed a portfolio that stands to make a meaningful clinical impact for patients with liver and infectious diseases who thus far haven’t been offered the best that already approved therapeutics intended to. I look forward to supporting the Aligos team in strategically navigating their clinical development efforts.”
She holds a B.Sc. in Microbiology from Cornell University, an M.A. in Molecular Immunology from Boston University, and an M.D. from The Chicago Medical School. Dr. Martell is board certified in Internal and Addiction Medicine.
About Aligos
Aligos Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that was founded in 2018 with the mission to become a world leader in the treatment of viral infections and liver diseases. Aligos is focused on the development of targeted antiviral therapies for chronic hepatitis B and coronaviruses as well as leveraging its expertise in liver diseases to create targeted therapeutics for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. Aligos’ strategy is to harness the deep expertise and decades of drug development experience its workforce has in liver disease, particularly viral hepatitis, to rapidly advance its pipeline of potentially best-in-class molecules.
For more information: https://www.aligos.com/
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