MEI Pharma announces Board member Charles Baltic as next Chair of its Board of Directors

– USA, CA –  MEI Pharma, Inc. (Nasdaq: MEIP), a late-stage pharmaceutical company focused on advancing new cancer therapies, today announced the election of Board member Charles Baltic as Chair of its Board of Directors, to replace Dr. Christine White who will retire effective at the 2023 AGM.

About Charles Baltic

Mr. Baltic has served as a director of MEI Pharma since October 2011 and as chair of the nominating and governance committee since 2012. He also serves as a director and chair of the board of AssayQuant Technologies, Inc., a private company focused on kinase-based assay drug development technologies exclusively licensed to AssayQuant by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Baltic most recently served as EVP and COO of SIDIS Corp. from 2019 to 2021, overseeing the sale of the Propel Labs flow cytometry business to Thermo Fisher Scientific in February 2021. Since 1996, Mr. Baltic has held several healthcare investment banking positions, most recently at Needham & Company, LLC as managing director and co-head of healthcare banking until 2019 and as senior advisor from 2019 to 2022. Mr. Baltic also served on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Advisory Committee on small and emerging growth companies from 2013 to 2015.

About MEI Pharma

MEI Pharma, Inc. is a late-stage pharmaceutical company focused on developing potential new therapies for cancer. MEI Pharma’s portfolio of drug candidates contains multiple clinical-stage assets, including zandelisib, currently in ongoing clinical trials which may support marketing approvals with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and other regulatory authorities globally. Each of MEI Pharma’s pipeline candidates leverages a different mechanism of action to develop therapeutic options that are: (1) differentiated, (2) address unmet medical needs, and (3) deliver improved benefits to patients either as standalone treatments or in combination with other therapeutic options.

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