HOUSTON— Moleculin Biotech, Inc., (Nasdaq: MBRX) (Moleculin or the Company), a clinical stage pharmaceutical company with a broad portfolio of drug candidates targeting hard-to-treat tumors and viruses, today announced the formation of its Annamycin Scientific Advisory Board and inaugural appointment of Dr. Martin Tallman.
Dr. Tallman is an internationally renowned clinical investigator whose discoveries have fueled the progress of leukemia-targeting therapies, most recently with the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University. Prior to his role at Lurie Cancer Center where he focused on the management and development of new treatments for patients with both acute and chronic leukemias, he was at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center where he served as chief of the Leukemia Service and Professor of Medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York. He was the president of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) in 2021, chaired the Leukemia Committee of the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) for 16 years, and served as immediate past chair of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Acute Myeloid Leukemia Panel. Dr. Tallman previously served at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine as Professor of Medicine prior to his appointment at Sloan Kettering.
Walter Klemp, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Moleculin commented, “We continue to be encouraged by the growing body of data Annamycin has demonstrated across our ongoing development programs. As we continue on our pathway forward, we are pleased to bolster our Annamycin development programs with the formation of this Scientific Advisory Board and add the internationally-renowned knowledge and expertise of Dr. Tallman. We are committed to advancing our clinical and regulatory strategies toward our next phase of development for Annamycin.”
Dr. Tallman added, “The latest preliminary AML data suggest that Annamycin could result in a promising new the treatment for AML. I am excited to work alongside the Moleculin team to continue advancing its development and further explore its potential to address these areas of significant unmet need.”
Annamycin currently has Fast Track Status and Orphan Drug Designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of relapsed or refractory AML and Orphan Drug Designation for the treatment of STS lung mets, in addition to Orphan Drug Designation from the European Medicines Agency for the treatment of AML.
