CAMBRIDGE, Mass.– Scholar Rock (NASDAQ: SRRK), a late-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on advancing innovative treatments for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), cardiometabolic disorders, and other serious diseases where protein growth factors play a fundamental role, announced today that Lisa Wyman has been appointed to the new role of Chief Technical and Quality Officer (CTQO) to support the Company’s ongoing growth and evolution to becoming a fully integrated biopharma company as it prepares for its first expected drug approval and commercial launch in 2025.
Ms. Wyman brings more than 20 years of leadership and functional experience in technical and quality operations, including executive team responsibilities in her most recent roles at Generate:Biomedicines and Acceleron Pharma. She joins Scholar Rock’s Executive Team, reporting directly to Jay Backstrom, M.D., MPH, President and Chief Executive Officer.
As the Company transitions to a new organizational structure, the role of Chief Operating Officer (COO) is being eliminated, and the Company has initiated a search for a Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Ted Myles, COO & CFO at Scholar Rock, will remain with the Company through mid-March, and then serve as a Senior Advisor for six months, during the leadership transition.
“I am delighted to have Lisa join Scholar Rock and further fortify our readiness to bring apitegromab to the market for patients and continue to expand our technical and quality operations for our earlier stage clinical pipeline,” said Dr. Backstrom. “We are at a critical and exciting stage in our evolution from a historically R&D focused company, to planning for our first anticipated commercial product launch. Lisa’s leadership and technical expertise are instrumental for us to achieve our mission to discover, develop, and deliver therapies to improve people’s lives and make a meaningful difference for people living with serious diseases.”
Dr. Backstrom added, “I am grateful to Ted for his many contributions to Scholar Rock during a very important period of organizational growth and transformation and helping us on our path to becoming a fully integrated biopharma company. On behalf of the Board of Directors and the entire Executive Team, I would like to thank Ted for his strong leadership and his continued support through this transition period. We wish him continued success in his next industry leadership role.”
Ms. Wyman joins Scholar Rock from Generate:Biomedicines where she served as Chief Technical Operations Officer, and a member of the Company’s Executive Leadership Team. While at Generate, she was responsible for establishing and building out the global technical operations organization to support its pursuit of developing a broad portfolio of medicines for patients. Her role included leading multi-faceted teams across Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls (CMC), technical development, quality, supply operations.
Prior to Generate, Ms. Wyman served as the Senior Vice President of Technical Operations and Quality, and member of the Executive Committee at Acceleron, where she helped to transform the enterprise from a research and development-focused company to a fully integrated biotech, which led to the eventual sale of the company to Merck & Co. in 2021 for over $11 billion. At Acceleron, she led the CMC strategy for the accelerated development of sotatercept (marketed as WINREVAIR) for pulmonary arterial hypertension and supported the launch of Acceleron’s first commercial product Reblozyl.
Before joining Acceleron, she had roles of increasing responsibility at Mersana Therapeutics, Shire, and Boston Scientific. She graduated from Ithaca College with a degree in biology and earned a master’s degree in engineering management from Tufts University.
