Tiziana Life Sciences Announces Death of Director
01/13/2022 - 07:00 AM
NEW YORK, Jan. 13, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tiziana Life Sciences (Nasdaq: TLSA) (“Tiziana”), a biotechnology company enabling breakthrough immunotherapies via novel routes of drug delivery, today announced that Dr. Thomas Adams passed away on January 9, 2022. He served as a member of Tiziana Life Science’s Board of Directors since February 2021.
Dr. Kunwar Shailubhai, the Company's CEO, commented, "It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Dr. Tom Adams. He was a highly valued Director of the Company and was an inspiration to all of us. Although he joined the Board a year ago, Dr. Adams had been involved with Tiziana over a number of years. He will be missed not only as a business colleague, but also as a friend. We extend our deepest sympathies to the entire Adams family."
About Tiziana Life Sciences Tiziana Life Sciences is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing breakthrough therapies using transformational drug delivery technologies to enable alternative routes of immunotherapy. Tiziana’s innovative nasal, oral and inhalation approaches in development have the potential to provide an improvement in efficacy as well as safety and tolerability compared to intravenous (IV) delivery. Tiziana’s two lead candidates, intranasal foralumab, the only fully human anti-CD3 mAb, and milciclib, a pan-CDK inhibitor, have both demonstrated a favorable safety profile and clinical response in patients in studies to date. Tiziana’s technology for alternative routes of immunotherapy has been patented with several applications pending and is expected to allow for broad pipeline applications.
For further enquiries: United Kingdom: Tiziana Life Sciences Ltd. Gabriele Cerrone, Chairman and founder +44 (0)20 7495 2379 United States: Irina Koffler LifeSci Advisors, LLC 646.970.4681 ikoffler@lifesciadvisors.com
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tiziana life sciences plc is a uk biotechnology company that focuses on the discovery and development of novel molecules that treat human disease in oncology and immunology. the company is focused on its lead compound, milciclib, a molecule which blocks the action of specific enzymes called cyclin-dependent kinases (cdk) involved in cell division as well as a number of other protein kinases. milciclib is currently in phase ii clinical trials for thymic carcinoma in patients previously treated with chemotherapy. the company is also in clinical development of foralumab. foralumab is the only fully human engineered anti-human cd3 antibody in clinical development. this phase ii compound has potential application in a wide range of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, such as ulcerative colitis, multiple sclerosis, type-1 diabetes (t1d), inflammatory bowel disease (ibd), psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis, where modulation of a t-cell response is desirable. tiziana life sciences’ research