Bruce Booth, D.Phil., one of our founding investors and board members, has served as a member of our Board of Directors since February 2016. Dr. Booth joined Atlas Venture in 2005, and currently serves as Partner. Previously, from 2004 to 2005, Dr. Booth was a Principal at Caxton Health Holdings L.L.C., a healthcare-focused investment firm, where he focused on the firm’s venture capital activities. Prior to Caxton, from 1999 to 2004, he was an Associate Principal at McKinsey & Company, a global strategic management consulting firm, where he advised clients on R&D productivity, corporate strategy and business development issues across the biopharmaceutical sector. Dr. Booth serves on the Board of several privately held companies, as well as on the board of AVROBIO Inc., where he is the Chairman, Kymera Therapeutics, Inc., where he is the Chairman and a Co-Founder and Vigil Neuroscience, Inc., where he is Chairman. Dr. Booth previously served on the Board of miRagen Therapeutics, Inc. from 2007 to December 2018, Zafgen, Inc. from 2007 to June 2018 and Unum Therapeutics, Inc. from 2014 to July 2020. Dr. Booth also serves on UCB Pharma’s New Medicines Scientific Advisory Board and participates on several other advisory boards for pharmaceutical companies and academic medical centers. As a British Marshall Scholar, Dr. Booth holds a D.Phil. in molecular immunology from Oxford University’s Nuffield Department of Medicine and a B.S. in biochemistry, summa cum laude, from Pennsylvania State University. We believe Dr. Booth’s extensive leadership, executive, managerial and business experience with life sciences companies, including experience in the formation, development and business strategy of multiple start-up companies in the life sciences sector qualifies him to serve on our Board of Directors.
Thomas O. Daniel, M.D. has served as a member of our Board of Directors since October 2016. Dr. Daniel has 23 years of experience in biopharmaceutical discovery and development. He is currently Chairman of Locanabio, Inc., and is a director at Gossamer Bio, Inc. He was recently a Venture Partner at ARCH Venture Partners from October 2016 through June 2021, and served as Chairman of Research at Celgene Corporation, and as President of Research and Early Development from December 2006 until February 2012, and as Executive Vice President and President of Research and Early Development until December 2015. Previously, he served as Chief Scientific Officer and director at Ambrx Inc., from August 2003 to November 2006. Dr. Daniel also served as Vice President of Research at Amgen Inc. from August 2002 to April 2003, where he was Research Site Head of Amgen Washington and Therapeutic Area Head of Inflammation. Prior to Amgen Inc.’s acquisition of Immunex Corporation, Dr. Daniel served as Senior Vice President of Discovery Research at Immunex Corporation from May 2000 to August 2002. Dr. Daniel previously served on the Boards of Juno Therapeutics, Inc. from July 2015 to March 2018, and Epizyme, Inc. from May 2013 to June 2014. Dr. Daniel is a Trustee of Reed College, serves on the Board of the Alliance for Lupus Research, and advises privately-held biotechnology companies including Brii Biosciences Limited, Epirium Bio, Inc. and Inception Therapeutics. Dr. Daniel serves as director and Chairman of the Board of Overseers of The Scripps Research Institute. A nephrologist and former academic investigator, Dr. Daniel was previously the C.M. Hakim Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology at Vanderbilt University. He formerly conducted research in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at UC San Francisco, earned an M.D. from the University of Texas, Southwestern, and completed medical residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Daniel’s qualifications to serve on our Board of Directors include his extensive experience in biotechnology research and development and his prior experience as both an executive officer and a director of publicly traded companies.
Alison F. Lawton has served as a member of our Board of Directors since December 2020 and the Chair of our Board of Directors since August 2021. Ms. Lawton is an executive leader with more than 30 years of experience in biopharma. She served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Kaleido Biosciences, Inc. from August 2018 to June 2020, and served as President and Chief Operating Officer from December 2017 to August 2018. Prior to joining Kaleido Biosciences, Inc., Ms. Lawton served as Chief Operating Officer at Aura Biosciences, Inc., an oncology therapeutics company, from January 2015 until December 2017, and, prior to joining Aura, served as a consultant to Aura from March 2014 to December 2014. From January 2013 to January 2014, Ms. Lawton served as Chief Operating Officer at OvaScience Inc., a life sciences company. From 2014 to 2017, Ms. Lawton served as a biotech consultant for various companies, including as Chief Operating Officer consultant at X4 Pharmaceuticals. Prior to that, Ms. Lawton spent more than 20 years in various positions of increasing responsibility including Senior Vice President and General Manager of Biosurgery and prior, Senior Vice President of Market Access at Genzyme Corporation, a global biopharmaceutical company, and subsequently at Sanofi S.A., also a global biopharmaceutical company, following the acquisition of Genzyme by Sanofi in 2011. Additionally, Ms. Lawton previously served two terms as the industry representative on the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s Cell & Gene Therapy Advisory Committee and as Chairman of the Board of the Regulatory Affairs Professional Society. Ms. Lawton currently serves on the Board of Directors of ProQR Therapeutics N.V., X4 Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Aeglea Biotherapeutics Inc. and the private companies SwanBio Therapeutics, Inc. and AgBiome, LLC. Ms. Lawton previously served on the boards of directors of Kaleido Biosciences Inc. from August 2018 to October 2020, Verastem, Inc. from November 2012 to May 2020, CoLucid Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from March 2016 until its acquisition by Eli Lilly in March 2017, and Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from February 2012 to December 2014 prior to its acquisition by Merck & Co. in January 2015. Ms. Lawton holds a B.Sc. in pharmacology from Kings College, University of London.
Anne McGeorge has been a member of our Board of Directors since June 2019. Ms. McGeorge has over 35 years of experience providing strategic guidance and operational oversight to health care organizations. Ms. McGeorge is on the adjunct faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ms. McGeorge is a director at The Oncology Institute, Inc. (NASDAQ:TOI), CitiusTech, a private health care technology company, Nimbus Therapeutics, LLC, a private biotech company, CLEAR Insurance, a Cayman based captive insurance company, the National Marrow Donor Program (Be The Match), a 501(c)(3) organization, and is on the
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