REDWOOD CITY, Calif. & BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Adicet Bio, Inc. (Nasdaq: ACET), a clinical stage biotechnology company discovering and developing allogeneic gamma delta T cell therapies for autoimmune diseases and cancer, today announced the appointment of Lloyd Klickstein, M.D., Ph.D. to its Board of Directors.
“We are pleased to welcome Dr. Klickstein to our Board of Directors,” said Chen Schor, President and Chief Executive Officer of Adicet Bio. “Dr. Klickstein’s expertise in rheumatology and immunology, proven track record in drug development and his scientific knowledge of our gamma delta T cell platform as a former executive at Adicet will be very valuable as we progress our autoimmune programs across multiple indications. I look forward to working with Lloyd and to his contributions to our board and pipeline of differentiated gamma delta CAR T therapies.”
“Leveraging its proprietary gamma delta T cell platform, Adicet has the potential to develop groundbreaking therapies for autoimmune and oncology indications. I am pleased to join the Board of Directors at Adicet,” said Dr. Klickstein. “I look forward to collaborating with my esteemed colleagues on the board and the management team to drive Adicet’s mission of delivering best-in-class gamma delta cell therapies to patients in need.”
Dr. Klickstein has over two decades of leadership experience in the biopharmaceutical industry and biomedical research. He currently serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Koslapp Therapeutics, Inc. and is the Board Chair of the Lupus Foundation of New England. Dr. Klickstein co-founded Versanis Bio, Inc., where he held multiple executive roles, prior to the Company’s acquisition by Eli Lilly and Co. Before that, he held positions of Chief Innovation Officer at Adicet, Chief Scientific Officer at resTORbio, Inc. (Adicet’s predecessor company) and served as an independent board member at Blade Therapeutics, Inc. Prior to that, Dr. Klickstein was the Global Head of Translational Medicine for the New Indication Discovery Unit and the Exploratory Disease Area at Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, overseeing the development of innovative programs across various therapeutic areas. Previously, he was an academic physician-scientist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). Dr. Klickstein holds a B.S. from Tufts University and an M.D. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He completed post-graduate clinical training in Internal Medicine, Rheumatology & Immunology at BWH and a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Center for Blood Research in Boston.
About Adicet Bio, Inc.
Adicet Bio, Inc. is a clinical stage biotechnology company discovering and developing allogeneic gamma delta T cell therapies for autoimmune diseases and cancer. Adicet is advancing a pipeline of “off-the-shelf” gamma delta T cells, engineered with chimeric antigen receptors (CARs), to facilitate durable activity in patients. For more information, please visit the Company’s website at https://www.adicetbio.com.
