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Homology Medicines Announces Promotion of Albert Seymour, Ph.D., to President
BEDFORD, Mass., April 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Homology Medicines, Inc. (Nasdaq: FIXX), a genetic medicines company, announced today that Albert Seymour,
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[{"type":"text","content":"BEDFORD, Mass., April 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Homology Medicines, Inc. (Nasdaq: FIXX), a genetic medicines company, announced today that Albert Seymour, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, has been promoted to President of Homology. In addition to his role as CSO, Dr. Seymour will assume broader responsibilities for additional functional areas, including human resources, clinical development and operations, and commercial strategy. “Albert has fostered a culture of scientific innovation and execution that brought our first gene therapy candidate to the clinic within three years from inception, and this was followed closely by two additional trial initiations, including our first nuclease-free in vivo gene editing program,” said Arthur Tzianabos, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of Homology Medicines. “I look forward to our continued work together, and I am confident in Albert’s ability to advance the pipeline while overseeing clinical execution of our three trials, which is a major focus of near-term milestones for Homology. I believe Albert’s added responsibilities will also ensure a seamless collaboration with the new AAV manufacturing company we formed recently with Oxford Biomedica that provides us preferred access to high-quality product.” Dr. Seymour was one of the first employees of Homology and has served as CSO since joining alongside CEO Dr. Tzianabos in 2016. Dr. Seymour played an integral role in helping build Homology into a fully integrated company with capabilities spanning from discovery to product development and through to commercialization. Importantly, he drove the translation of the Company’s proprietary in vivo gene therapy and nuclease-free gene editing platform from early research and discovery to three clinical development programs for rare diseases. Under his scientific leadership, Dr. Seymour and his team forged a new path forward to assess and confirm on- and off-target gene integration at the molecular level, a critical step for the field as it continues to develop genetic medicines. His vision also led to the expansion of Homology’s technology platform with the recent launch of the GTx-mAb platform, a one-time gene therapy designed to produce and distribute antibodies from the liver, an innovative approach that can be applied to develop therapies for diseases with larger patient populations. “I join...