– USA, UT – Peel Therapeutics, an evolutionary-inspired, clinical-stage biotech company, today announced the additions of Ryan Watts and Carin Canale-Theakston to its Board of Directors to support and guide the company through this rapid growth stage.
About Ryan Watts
Ryan Watts is the CEO and Co-founder of Denali Therapeutics. Under his leadership, Denali has advanced multiple therapeutic candidates into clinical testing for Parkinson’s Disease, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Watts has led efforts to raise significant capital to advance Denali’s pipeline and has been instrumental in forging partnerships to accelerate the discovery and development of medicines for neurodegeneration.
“I am excited to be a part of Peel Therapeutics and their ground-breaking approach to engineer molecules in nature into drugs with significant impact for patients with cancer and inflammation,” said Ryan Watts. “Joining as a Director is an opportunity to participate in Peel’s next stage of growth.”
About Carin Canale-Theakston
Carin Canale-Theakston is a life science executive with more than 25 years of experience helping companies navigate business and communications. She has shaped strategies for more than 500 life science companies and has experience with companies of all sizes and stages, ranging from emerging biopharma startups and venture capital firms, to major diagnostic companies, to several of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies.
Canale-Theakston said, “Peel has impressed me with its meaningful nonclinical data coupled with their passion for helping patients, I am eager to work with the Peel team to help advance evolution-inspired drugs to the clinic.”
About Peel Therapeutics
Peel Therapeutics is an evolutionary-inspired, clinical-stage biotech company that engineers nature better than evolution intended. Our team searches for nature’s super abilities where evolutionary biology accomplished the inconceivable in preventing or defeating disease. We then apply multidisciplinary scientific and drug development expertise to rapidly translate this evolutionary biology into medicines. The company is advancing a therapeutic pipeline to treat a spectrum of devastating conditions, with a near-term focus on cancer and inflammation. At Peel Therapeutics, we push the limits of biology to develop highly effective and safe medicines for patients that transcend the incremental. “Peel” is the Hebrew word for elephant, our company originates from the natural cancer resistance found in elephants.
Peel Therapeutics has raised a total of $36M in seed financing, plus over $3M in non-dilutive capital including National Institutes of Health Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer funding. Most recently, the company closed a $9M SAFE financing round which will be used to advance clinical and pre-clinical programs.
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