Werewolf Therapeutics Appoints Anil Singhal, Ph.D., to its Board of Directors
February 24 2025 - 7:30AM
Werewolf Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: HOWL), an innovative
biopharmaceutical company pioneering the development of
conditionally activated therapeutics engineered to stimulate the
body’s immune system for the treatment of cancer and immunological
diseases, today announced the appointment of Anil Singhal, Ph.D.,
President and Chief Executive Officer of Trishula Therapeutics, as
a member of its board of directors.
“I am thrilled to join Werewolf’s board of
directors as the company advances its novel INDUKINE molecules
through clinical development,” said Dr. Singhal. “Werewolf is
demonstrating the power of the PREDATORTM protein engineering
platform and its potential to provide safer and more efficacious
treatments for cancer and immunological diseases.”
“I am pleased to welcome Dr. Singhal to our
board of directors at this exciting time for our company,” added
Luke Evnin, Ph.D., Chairman of the Board of Directors and
co-founder of Werewolf Therapeutics. “With over 30 years of
oncology research and development leadership and execution, Dr.
Singhal’s proven experience represents a critical addition to our
board’s skill set.”
Dr. Singhal joins the board of Werewolf
Therapeutics with over three decades of research and development
experience in the biopharmaceutical industry. Dr. Singhal is the
President and Chief Executive Officer of Trishula Therapeutics,
Inc., a private biotechnology company. Prior to that, Dr. Singhal
served as the President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of
the board of directors of Adicet Bio, Inc., where he led the
then-private biotechnology company to its first oncology
investigational new drug application submission and its merger with
resTOR bio, Inc. Dr. Singhal is a member of the American
Association of Cancer Research and a member of the American Society
of Clinical Oncology. Dr. Singhal received his B.Sc Honours degree
in Biochemistry from Panjab University in India, his MBA in
Business Administration from the University of Washington and his
Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Rutgers University.
Concurrent with the appointment of Dr. Singhal,
Werewolf announced that Derek DiRocco plans to resign as a director
of the Company, effective as of the Company’s 2025 annual meeting
of stockholders. Dr. DiRocco has been a very valuable member of the
Werewolf board since joining at the Series B raise led by RA
Capital in 2020, and the Company appreciates his years of
representation and support.
About Werewolf TherapeuticsWerewolf
Therapeutics, Inc., is an innovative biopharmaceutical company
pioneering the development of therapeutics engineered to stimulate
the body’s immune system for the treatment of cancer and other
immune-mediated conditions. The Company is leveraging its
proprietary PREDATOR® platform to design conditionally
activated molecules that stimulate both adaptive and innate
immunity with the goal of addressing the limitations of
conventional proinflammatory immune therapies. Werewolf’s INDUKINE
molecules are intended to remain inactive in peripheral tissue yet
activate selectively in the tumor microenvironment. The Company’s
most advanced clinical stage product candidates, WTX-124 and
WTX-330, are systemically delivered, conditionally activated
Interleukin-2 (IL-2) and Interleukin-12 (IL-12) INDUKINE molecules,
respectively, for the treatment of solid tumors. Werewolf is
advancing WTX-124 in multiple tumor types as a single agent and in
combination with an immune checkpoint inhibitor and WTX-330 in
multiple tumor types or Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma as a single agent. To
learn more visit www.werewolftx.com.
Media Contact:
Amanda Sellers
Deerfield Group
amanda.sellers@deerfieldgroup.com
Company Contact:
Ellen Lubman
Chief Business Officer
Werewolf Therapeutics
elubman@werewolftx.com
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