Amarna Therapeutics announces appointment of Dr Henk Streefkerk as new CEO

"We are very pleased to introduce Henk Streefkerk as our new CEO. As a Physician Scientist he brings to Amarna a broad and extensive experience in clinical development, health authority negotiations, and other regulatory interactions. Henk will be instrumental in leading Amarna towards the first in human clinical trial," said Thomas Eldered, Chairman of Amarna's supervisory board. " We are very pleased to introduceHenk Streefkerkas our new CEO. As a Physician Scientist he brings to Amarna a...

"We are very pleased to introduce Henk Streefkerk as our new CEO. As a Physician Scientist he brings to Amarna a broad and extensive experience in clinical development, health authority negotiations, and other regulatory interactions. Henk will be instrumental in leading Amarna towards the first in human clinical trial," said Thomas Eldered, Chairman of Amarna's supervisory board.

"I'm thrilled to be joining Amarna as CEO. The company's team has been working very hard to generate solid translational data. I look forward to work with them on this next phase of bringing Amarna's personalized gene therapy product to hemophilia B patients and proving the potential of repeat dosing," said Henk Streefkerk.

About Amarna

Amarna Therapeutics is a privately held biotech company developing multiple-dose gene therapies to treat patients with genetic and idiopathic diseases, focusing first on hemophilia B. The company's SVec gene delivery vector platform derived from the macaque polyomavirus SV40 is by design non-immunogenic and tolerogenic in humans inducing long-term transgene expression in patients with the possibility of repeated administration. The SVec platform could be applied in many different genetic and idiopathic diseases, including hemophilia A and B, cystic fibrosis, type 1 diabetes mellitus, multiple sclerosis and many others.

About Hemophilia B

The company's lead project is on hemophilia B, an orphan recessive X-linked congenital bleeding disease, caused by mutations in the F9 gene encoding bleeding factor IX (FIX). This deficiency results in impaired hemostasis, prolonged bleeding and rebleeding. Based on the FIX levels in the blood patients are characterized as severe, moderate or mild hemophiliacs. Amarna's SVec vector encoding human FIX moving towards its first-in-human clinical trial will restore the FIX levels in the blood of treated patients and through repeat dosing could meet many unmet patient needs.

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