TORONTO, November 14, 2024--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Satellos Bioscience Inc.(TSX: MSCL) (OTCQB: MSCLF) ("Satellos" or the "Company"), a public biotech company developing new small molecule therapeutic approaches to improve the treatment of muscle diseases and disorders, announced today the appointment of Stephanie Brown to its Board of Directors. Ms. Brown brings over 30 years of biopharma industry experience, having held numerous executive roles contributing to groundbreaking achievements in product commercialization and organizational transformation.
"Stephanie is a recognized leader in the biopharma space and has led multiple successful product launches for biologics and small molecules, particularly within the rare diseases sector," said Frank Gleeson, Co-founder and CEO of Satellos Bioscience. "Her exceptional experience in building and scaling biopharma companies, particularly in rare and specialty disease markets, aligns well with Satellos’ mission to innovate for patients with serious muscle diseases. Her expertise will be invaluable as we advance transformative treatments and position the Company for future growth."
Over her career, Ms. Brown’s contributions have spanned business development, portfolio planning, and corporate optimization with revenues reaching billions. Ms. Brown has held senior leadership roles, including President, North America for Santhera Pharmaceuticals, where she oversaw operations and strategic objectives, and Head of Rare Diseases at Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, where she directed the commercialization strategy for in-line and launch brands. She has also been a vital member of executive teams at top global firms, including Merck, Genentech, Biogen, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, and Novartis, where she managed high-value product portfolios and led launches for multiple specialty and rare disease treatments, including the successful launch of Aimovig, a breakthrough migraine prevention therapy.
Currently, Stephanie serves on the Board of Directors for Resilia, Inc. She has previously held board positions with ObsEva and the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), among others, contributing her expertise to the advancement of biotech innovations and patient-centered solutions.
About Satellos Bioscience Inc.
Satellos is a clinical-stage drug development company dedicated to developing life-improving medicines to treat degenerative muscle diseases. Satellos has invented SAT-3247 as a first-of-its-kind, orally administered small molecule drug designed to restore skeletal muscle regeneration initially in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Satellos has generated a significant body of preclinical evidence in DMD to support that correcting muscle stem cell polarity with SAT-3247 has the potential to restore skeletal muscle regeneration to repair and strengthen muscle that has been damaged. The Company’s lead drug candidate SAT-3247 is currently in clinical development as a potential disease-modifying treatment DMD. Additionally, Satellos is leveraging its breakthrough research in muscle stem cell polarity and proprietary discovery platform MyoReGenX™, to identify degenerative muscle diseases where deficits in muscle regeneration occur that are amenable to therapeutic intervention for future clinical development. For more information, visit www.satellos.com.
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This press release includes forward-looking information or forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable securities laws regarding Satellos and its business, which may include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the potential of our approach in other degenerative muscle diseases or in muscle injury or trauma; the general benefits of modulating stem cell polarity by administering small molecule drugs; its/their prospective impact on Duchenne patients, patients with other degenerative muscle disease or muscle injury or trauma, and on muscle regeneration generally; the utility of regenerating muscle by modulating polarity; adoption of Satellos’ approach by the medical community; and Satellos’ technologies and drug development plans. All statements that are, or information which is, not historical facts, including without limitation, statements regarding future estimates, plans, programs, forecasts, projections, objectives, assumptions, expectations or beliefs of future performance, occurrences or developments, are "forward-looking information or statements." Often but not always, forward-looking information or statements can be identified by the use of words such as "shall", "intends", "anticipate", "believe", "plan", "expect", "intend", "estimate", "anticipate", "potential", "prospective" , "assert" or any variations (including negative or plural variations) of such words and phrases, or state that certain actions, events or results "may", "might", "can", "could", "would" or "will" be taken, occur, lead to, result in, or, be achieved. Such statements are based on the current expectations and views of future events of the management of the Company. They are based on assumptions and subject to risks and uncertainties. Although management believes that the assumptions underlying these statements are reasonable, they may prove to be incorrect. The forward-looking events and circumstances discussed in this release, may not occur and could differ materially as a result of known and unknown risk factors and uncertainties affecting the Company, including, without limitation, risks relating to the pharmaceutical and bioscience industry (including the risks associated with preclinical and clinical trials and regulatory approvals), and the research and development of therapeutics, the results of preclinical and clinical trials, general market conditions and equity markets, economic factors and management’s ability to manage and to operate the business of the Company generally, including inflation and the costs of operating a biopharma business, and those risks listed in the "Risk Factors" section of Satellos’ Annual Information Form dated March 26, 2024 (which is located on Satellos’ profile at www.sedarplus.ca). Although Satellos has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual actions, events or results to differ materially from those described in forward-looking statements, there may be other factors that cause actions, events or results to differ from those anticipated, estimated or intended. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements or information. No forward- looking statement can be guaranteed. Except as required by applicable securities laws, forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made and Satellos does not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether resulting from new information, future events, or otherwise
