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Precision BioSciences Appoints Sam Wadsworth, Ph.D. and Shari Lisa Piré, J.D. to Board of Directors
New Directors Add Decades of Cell and Gene Therapy Development and Strategic Business Growth Experience DURHAM, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Precision
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nNew Directors Add Decades of Cell and Gene Therapy Development and Strategic Business Growth Experience\n\n DURHAM, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nPrecision BioSciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: DTIL), a clinical stage biotechnology company using its ARCUS® genome editing platform to develop allogeneic CAR T and in vivo gene editing therapies, today announced that Sam Wadsworth, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer of Ultragenyx Gene Therapy, an operating unit of Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc., and Shari Lisa Piré, J.D., Chief Legal & Sustainability Officer at Plume Design, have been appointed to the Company’s Board of Directors.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211108005415/en/Sam Wadsworth, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer of Ultragenyx Gene Therapy, an operating unit of Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc., has been appointed to Precision BioSciences' Board of Directors. (Photo: Business Wire)\n“Sam Wadsworth brings extensive drug discovery and development experience in the gene therapy and rare disease areas, and Shari Piré is an exceptional operational and legal leader with proven business transformation experience with cell, gene, and cell-mediated gene therapy companies,” said Kevin Buehler, Chairman of the Board of Directors at Precision BioSciences. “With the appointments of Sam and Shari, in addition to Michael Amoroso and Stan Frankel, M.D. who recently joined the Precision BioSciences Board, we are building an exceptional Board with diverse business experience. As Precision enters its next phase of growth, this collective input will be important as we look to quickly advance three INDs/CTAs over the next three years and continue to advance our clinical allogeneic CAR T programs.”\n\nDr. Wadsworth has nearly 30 years of industry experience at Genzyme (later Sanofi Genzyme), followed by Ultragenyx Therapeutics. While at Genzyme, Dr. Wadsworth oversaw the discovery and translational research on multiple rare disease and gene therapy programs, including Genzyme’s clinical stage gene therapy program. Later at Sanofi Genzyme, he served as the head of gene therapy research and early development. In 2013, Dr. Wadsworth joined Dimension Therapeutics as Chief Scientific Officer and went on to build a fully capable IND and clinical trial phase public company that lead to the sub...