Ashvattha Therapeutics Announces Appointment of Dr. Sakura Minami as Vice President of Translational Medicine and Nonclinical Development and Sarah Thayer as Head of Clinical Operations
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Oct. 09, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ashvattha Therapeutics (“Ashvattha”), a clinical-stage company advancing a new class of nanomedicine therapeutics that traverse tissue barriers to selectively target activated cells in regions of inflammation, today announced the appointment of Sakura Minami, Ph.D., as Vice President of Translational Medicine and Nonclinical Development and Sarah Thayer as Head of Clinical Operations.
- REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Oct. 09, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ashvattha Therapeutics (“Ashvattha”), a clinical-stage company advancing a new class of nanomedicine therapeutics that traverse tissue barriers to selectively target activated cells in regions of inflammation, today announced the appointment of Sakura Minami, Ph.D., as Vice President of Translational Medicine and Nonclinical Development and Sarah Thayer as Head of Clinical Operations.
- Ms. Thayer has more than 20 years of progressive leadership experience in clinical development operations across various therapeutic areas from Phase 1 through Phase 3.
- She previously served as Vice President, Head of Clinical Operations at Recode Therapeutics where she established the clinical operations function at the company.
- Prior to Recode, she led clinical operations at Global Blood Therapeutics (Pfizer), StemCells Inc, FivePrime Therapeutics (Amgen), CV Therapeutics (Gilead), Titan Pharmaceuticals and Becton Dickinson Immunocytometry Systems.