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ProQR Nominates Martin Maier, PhD to Board and Announces Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be Held May 22, 2024
LEIDEN, Netherlands & CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 23, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ProQR Therapeutics NV. (Nasdaq: PRQR) (ProQR), a company dedicated to changing
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[{"type":"text","content":"LEIDEN, Netherlands & CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 23, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ProQR Therapeutics NV. (Nasdaq: PRQR) (ProQR), a company dedicated to changing lives through transformative RNA therapies based on its proprietary Axiomer™ RNA editing technology platform, today announced the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Shareholders will take place on Wednesday, May 22, 2024 at 1630 CET (10:30am EDT) at the offices of Allen & Overy LLP, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. All relevant documents and information for the meeting, including the notice and agenda and explanatory notes, are or will be made available in the “Investors & Media” section of ProQR’s website (www.proqr.com) under “Financials and filings” and then “Shareholder meeting”. The documents will also be made available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Shareholders that wish to attend should register as described in the notice and agenda. As part of the AGM, Martin Maier, PhD, is nominated for appointment as a non-executive Board Member for a period of four years. Dr. Maier is Senior Vice President Research heading the Oncology group at Alnylam Pharmaceuticals. Since joining Alnylam in 2006, Dr. Maier has contributed to the development of lipid nanoparticles and GalNAc conjugates, two clinically validated platforms for siRNA delivery, as well as the advancement of multiple therapeutic programs to development, which has resulted in the approval of five RNAi therapeutics to date, including the approval of ONPATTRO™, the first-ever RNAi therapeutic and GIVLAARI™, the first GalNAc conjugate. He received his PhD in Organic Chemistry in 1997 from University of Tübingen, Germany with Professor Ernst Bayer. After his postdoctoral research at Isis (now Ionis) Pharmaceuticals, he assumed a permanent position working on novel chemistries and delivery systems for antisense oligonucleotides. Dr. Maier has more than 25 years of experience in the field of oligonucleotide therapeutics in both, ASO and RNAi platforms and authored more than 90 peer-reviewed scientific publications, reviews and book chapters and is the inventor on more than 40 issued patents. Dr. Maier is a current member of ProQR’s Scientific Advisory Board. “We’re very pleased to nominate Martin Maier to our Board” said Daniel A. de Boer, Founder and CEO. “Martin’s significant knowledge in the field of RNA platforms, delive...