Appointment of Dr. Alexandra Glucksmann as additional member of the supervisory board
BERLIN, August 27, 2024--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News:
TME Pharma N.V. (Euronext Growth Paris: ALTME), a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing novel therapies for treatment of cancer by targeting the tumor microenvironment (TME), announced today that an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders (the EGM) of the company is convened at 01.30 p.m. CEST on September 30, 2024, at the offices of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, Strawinskylaan 10, 1077 XZ in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
This EGM is convened to vote on the nomination of the new supervisory board member in order to enhance the board's composition and expertise. Considering the company’s strategic plans and current profile of the supervisory board, the supervisory board has made the following binding nomination: to appoint Dr. Alexandra Glucksmann as a fifth member of the supervisory board.
Dr. Alexandra Glucksmann (age 65 on September 30, 2024, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA) is a seasoned US biopharma executive and experienced scientist with over 30 years of managerial experience in biotech. She is currently President and CEO of Sensorium Therapeutics, a private CNS focused biotech company, and serves on the board of Directors of Regenxbio, a US NASDAQ listed pre-commercial biotech focused on gene therapy. Previously, she was President and CEO at Cedilla Therapeutics and an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Venture Capital firm Third Rock Ventures where she focused on company formation. During her tenure at Cedilla, she successfully led the company from its launch through to Series B, securing significant funding of $138 million. Earlier in her career, Dr. Glucksmann was a founding employee and the Chief Operating Officer at Editas Medicine, where she helped raise a total of $280 million from launch to IPO. She was also a founding employee and Senior Vice President of Research and Business Operations at Cerulean Pharma. She began her career at Millennium Pharmaceuticals as a research scientist and held roles of increasing responsibility, culminating in the role of Vice President of platform technology groups, prior to transitioning into a senior position in strategic program management and operations. Dr. Glucksmann earned her Ph.D. with honors in Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology from the University of Chicago in 1989 and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993.
The EGM documentation, i.e. the convocation to the EGM, the agenda and the explanatory notes to the agenda, the instructions and documents for participation and voting in person or by proxy at the upcoming EGM are available on the company’s website, in a dedicated section of the Corporate Governance page. These documents are also available at the company's offices at Max-Dohrn-Strasse 8-10, 10589 Berlin, Germany, for shareholders and persons entitled to attend the meeting who, upon request, will receive a copy free of charge.
Under Dutch law and the company’s Articles of Association, persons entitled to attend and to vote at the EGM are shareholders of the company (which for the purposes of this notice includes holders of a Dutch law right of usufruct) who (i) were registered as a shareholder in one of the administration records of the intermediaries that are (indirectly) participants in Euroclear France on September 02, 2024 (the Registration Date) after all debit and credit entries have been handled as per the Registration Date and (ii) have notified the company by 05.00 p.m. CEST on September 23, 2024, of their attendance in writing or electronically (contact details are available on the company’s website).
About TME Pharma
TME Pharma is a clinical-stage company focused on developing novel therapies for treatment of the most aggressive cancers. The company’s oncology-focused pipeline is designed to act on the tumor microenvironment (TME) and the cancer immunity cycle by breaking tumor protection barriers against the immune system and blocking tumor repair. By neutralizing chemokines in the TME, TMEPharma’s approach works in combination with other forms of treatment to weaken tumor defenses and enable greater therapeutic impact. In the GLORIA Phase 1/2 clinical trial, TME Pharma is studying its lead drug candidate NOX-A12 in newly diagnosed brain cancer patients who will not benefit clinically from standard chemotherapy. TME Pharma has delivered top-line data from the NOX-A12 three dose-escalation cohorts combined with radiotherapy of the GLORIA clinical trial, observing consistent tumor reductions and objective tumor responses. Additionally, GLORIA expansion arms evaluate safety and efficacy of NOX-A12 in other combinations where the interim results from the triple combination of NOX-A12, radiotherapy and bevacizumab suggest even deeper and more durable responses, and improved survival. US FDA has approved the design of a randomized Phase 2 trial in glioblastoma and TME Pharma was awarded fast track designation by the FDA for NOX-A12 in combination with radiotherapy and bevacizumab for use in the treatment of the aggressive adult brain cancer, glioblastoma. NOX-A12 in combination with radiotherapy had also previously received orphan drug designation (ODD) for glioblastoma in the United States and glioma in Europe. TME Pharma has delivered final top-line data with encouraging overall survival and safety profile from its NOX-A12 combination trial with Keytruda® in metastatic colorectal and pancreatic cancer patients, which was published in the Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer in October 2021. The company has entered in its second collaboration with MSD/Merck for its Phase 2 study, OPTIMUS, to further evaluate safety and efficacy of NOX-A12 in combination with Merck’s Keytruda® and two different chemotherapy regimens as second-line therapy in patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer. The design of the trial has been approved in France, Spain and the United States. The company’s second clinical-stage drug candidate, NOX-E36, is designed to target the innate immune system. TMEPharma is considering several solid tumors for further clinical development. Further information can be found at: www.tmepharma.com.
TME Pharma® and the TME Pharma logo are registered trademarks.
Keytruda® is a registered trademark of Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
GLORIA (NCT04121455) is TMEPharma’s dose-escalation, Phase 1/2 study of NOX-A12 in combination with radiotherapy in first-line partially resected or unresected glioblastoma (brain cancer) patients with unmethylated MGMT promoter (resistant to standard chemotherapy). GLORIA further evaluates safety and efficacy of NOX-A12 three additional arms combining NOX-A12 with: A. radiotherapy in patients with complete tumor resection; B. radiotherapy and bevacizumab; and C. radiotherapy and pembrolizumab.
About the OPTIMUS Study
OPTIMUS (NCT04901741) is TMEPharma’s planned open-label two-arm Phase 2 study of NOX-A12 combined with pembrolizumab and nanoliposomal irinotecan/5-FU/leucovorin or gemcitabine/nab-paclitaxel in microsatellite-stable metastatic pancreatic cancer patients.
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