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Dyne Therapeutics Announces Chief Scientific Officer Transition
- Co-founder Romesh Subramanian, Ph.D., stepping down as chief scientific officer and will serve as an advisor after leading successful R&D and
About this update from Dyne Therapeutics, Inc.
[{"type":"text","content":"- Co-founder Romesh Subramanian, Ph.D., stepping down as chief scientific officer and will serve as an advisor after leading successful R&D and pipeline-building efforts - - Oxana Beskrovnaya, Ph.D., appointed CSO - WALTHAM, Mass., June 02, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Dyne Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: DYN), a muscle disease company focused on advancing innovative life-transforming therapeutics for people living with genetically driven diseases, today announced that Romesh Subramanian, Ph.D. has chosen to step down as chief scientific officer for personal reasons and will continue to serve as an advisor to Dyne. Concurrently, Oxana Beskrovnaya, Ph.D., who has served as Dyne’s senior vice president, head of research since January 2020, has been appointed CSO. “In co-founding Dyne, Romesh laid the foundation of our efforts to advance modern oligonucleotide therapies that can be effectively delivered to muscle and ultimately transform the lives of people living with serious genetically driven diseases. We are grateful for his many contributions that have helped us build our pipeline, now on the cusp of entering the clinic, and are pleased that he will remain a part of the Dyne family as an advisor,” said Joshua Brumm, Dyne’s president and chief executive officer. “I’m very excited to have Oxana step into her new role and build on the impressive work she’s led since joining us early last year. She has been instrumental in enhancing our scientific expertise, attracting top talent to our research team and progressing our programs for patients in need.” “It has been a great privilege to be part of Dyne and to have accomplished significant milestones – from designing our innovative FORCE™ platform, to generating validating preclinical data, and to now be driving three promising programs toward the clinic,” said Dr. Subramanian. “For my family and me, this is the right time to step down as CSO of Dyne, and I am pleased that Oxana is well-positioned to take our programs forward. Dyne has an exciting platform and a very strong team in place. I look forward to seeing our continued progress and supporting the company in any way that I can.” Prior to joining Dyne, Dr. Beskrovnaya served as head of musculoskeletal and renal research in Sanofi’s rare disease and neurological unit, advancing a pipeline of drug candidates using multiple therapeutic mo...