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Xilio Therapeutics Appoints Tomas J. Heyman to Board of Directors
John Maraganore, Ph.D., former founding CEO of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Joins as a Strategic Advisor WALTHAM, Mass., Sept. 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Xilio
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[{"type":"text","content":"John Maraganore, Ph.D., former founding CEO of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Joins as a Strategic Advisor\nWALTHAM, Mass., Sept. 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Xilio Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLO), a biotechnology company developing tumor-selective immuno-oncology therapies for people living with cancer, today announced the appointment of Tomas J. Heyman to the company’s board of directors. Mr. Heyman is a biopharmaceutical veteran with nearly 40 years of leadership and management expertise in corporate strategy, business development and venture capital from his tenure with Johnson & Johnson (J&J). In addition, the company announced that John Maraganore, Ph.D., former founding CEO of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, will serve as a strategic advisor to Xilio’s board of directors and its executive team. “Tom brings extensive global leadership experience from his tenure at J&J and has a strong track record of driving value creation and business development. John is an industry pioneer who built Alnylam from an early research platform concept to a global therapeutics company with multiple novel medicines. The collective experience of Tom and John will be highly valuable as Xilio continues to advance its innovative scientific platform and promising pipeline of tumor-selective immunotherapy programs,” said Paul Clancy, chair of the board of directors of Xilio Therapeutics. “We are thrilled to welcome Tom to the Xilio board of directors and John as a strategic advisor to the company, and we look forward to working with each of them and benefiting from their extensive strategic knowledge and expertise.” “Xilio is pioneering an innovative platform to develop tumor-selective immunotherapies that have the potential to achieve meaningful anti-tumor activity while minimizing serious, systemic effects,” said Mr. Heyman. “I look forward to partnering with Xilio’s high-caliber board and leadership team as it seeks to advance its pipeline of potentially transformative clinical and pre-clinical programs.” “I have known Rene and the Xilio team for some time, and I have been impressed with their approach, which is intended to precisely deliver immunotherapies directly to the tumor microenvironment minimizing their systemic side effects and improving their potency,” said Dr. Maraganore. “I am excited to partner with the team as a strategic advisor to advance th...