Orchard Therapeutics Appoints Industry Veteran Alicia Secor to its Board of Directors
BOSTON and LONDON,
“We are thrilled to welcome Alicia to our board of directors at this pivotal time in Orchard’s development,” said
From 2016 to 2018, Ms. Secor served as president and chief executive officer at
“I am very pleased to join the Orchard board of directors at this exciting time,” said Ms. Secor. “I look forward to working with Orchard’s executive leadership team and board of directors to help bring the promise of transformative ex vivo lentiviral gene therapy to patients and families across multiple rare disease categories.”
About Orchard
Orchard Therapeutics is a fully integrated commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to transforming the lives of patients with serious and life-threatening rare diseases through innovative gene therapies.
Orchard’s portfolio of autologous ex vivo gene therapies includes Strimvelis, the first autologous ex vivo gene therapy approved by the European Medicines Agency for adenosine deaminase severe combined immunodeficiency (ADA-SCID). Additional programs for primary immune deficiencies, neurometabolic disorders and hemoglobinopathies include three advanced registrational studies for ADA-SCID, metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) and Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS), clinical programs for X-linked chronic granulomatous disease (X-CGD) and transfusion dependent beta-thalassemia (TDBT), as well as an extensive preclinical pipeline.
Orchard currently has offices in the
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Contacts
Corporate contact
+1 202-669-6786
katie.payne@orchard-tx.com
Media contact
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Source: Orchard Therapeutics Limited