{"id":5130,"date":"2025-04-16T11:00:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/airna.docksal.site\/news\/airna-ernennt-jacob-elkins-zum-chief-medical-officer\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T20:48:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:48:18","slug":"airna-appoints-jacob-elkins-chief-medical-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/airna.com\/de\/news\/airna-appoints-jacob-elkins-chief-medical-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"AIRNA ernennt Jacob Elkins zum Chief Medical Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA und T\u00fcbingen, Deutschland, 16.<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> April <\/em><\/strong><strong>2025 \u2013<\/strong>AIRNA, ein Biotech-Unternehmen, das Pionierarbeit im Bereich RNA-Editing-Therapeutika leistet, um das Leben von Patienten mit seltenen und h\u00e4ufigen Erkrankungen zu ver\u00e4ndern, gab heute die Ernennung von Dr. med. Jacob Elkins zum Chief Medical Officer bekannt. Dr. Jacob Elkins, erfahrener Neurologe und biopharmazeutische F\u00fchrungskraft kommt mit \u00fcber zwei Jahrzehnten Erfahrung in F\u00fchrungsrollen im Bereich translationaler und klinischer Entwicklung zu AIRNA. <\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p> \u201eDr. Elkins\u2019 umfassende Erfahrung in der Genmedizin und seine Erfolgsbilanz in der klinischen Entwicklung werden f\u00fcr AIRNA kurz- und langfristig von gro\u00dfem Wert sein, da wir daran arbeiten, das Versprechen des RNA-Editings f\u00fcr Patienten einzul\u00f6sen&#8220;, sagte Kris Elverum, President und Chief Executive Officer von AIRNA. \u201eWir freuen uns sehr, dass er zu uns kommt und uns auf unserem Weg unterst\u00fctzen wird, noch in diesem Jahr einen Zulassungsantrag f\u00fcr AIR-001, unser f\u00fchrendes Programm f\u00fcr Alpha-1-Antitrypsin-Defizienz, einzureichen.\u201c <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Zuletzt war Dr. Elkins Head of Development Sciences und Chief Medical Officer bei Sarepta Therapeutics und unterst\u00fctzte die Entwicklung von ELEVIDYS\u00ae, der ersten Gentherapie, die f\u00fcr die Behandlung von Duchenne-Muskeldystrophie (DMD) zugelassen wurde, sowie seines Portfolios von RNA-gerichteten Exon-Skipping-Behandlungen. Bevor er zu Sarepta kam, hatte Dr. Elkins eine Reihe von F\u00fchrungspositionen bei Biogen inne, zuletzt als Vice President of Experimental Neurology Research and Early Development, wo er Entwicklungsbem\u00fchungen f\u00fcr mehrere neuartige RNA-Therapeutika leitete.  <\/p>\n\n<p>Als CMO wird Dr. Elkins die klinische Strategie und Entwicklung von AIR-001 beaufsichtigen, mit dem Ziel, eine funktionelle Heilung f\u00fcr Alpha-1-Antitrypsin-Defizienz (AATD) zu erreichen und er wird die Pipeline von AIRNA in die klinische Entwicklung f\u00fcr sowohl seltene als auch h\u00e4ufige Erkrankungen ausbauen.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201ePatienten, die an AATD leiden, ben\u00f6tigen dringend neue therapeutische Optionen, und die differenzierte Chemie von AIR-001 hat das Potenzial, ein erstklassiges Medikament mit sehr starker Potenz f\u00fcr RNA-Editing zu sein und gleichzeitig Off-Target-Effekte zu minimieren\u201c, sagte Dr. Elkins. \u201eIch glaube, dass wir ein riesiges Potenzial haben, RNA-Editing als bahnbrechende Modalit\u00e4t voranzutreiben, die die Pr\u00e4zision genetischer Medikamente mit der Sicherheit, Zweckm\u00e4\u00dfigkeit und mehr Flexibilit\u00e4t von traditionellen Medikamenten verbindet.\u201c <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Dr. Elkins erhielt seinen Doktortitel von der Harvard Medical School und schloss sein Facharztstudium und sein Fellowship in Neurologie an der University of California, San Francisco, ab. <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>\u00dcber AIRNA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>AIRNA macht sich Fortschritte in der Genetik zunutze, um transformative RNA-modifizierende Medikamente zu entwickeln, die die menschliche Gesundheit verbessern, sowohl f\u00fcr seltene also auch f\u00fcr breite Populationen. Die RNA-Editing bietet die Pr\u00e4zision genmedizinischer Ans\u00e4tze bei gleichzeitiger Aufrechterhaltung der Behandlungsfreundlichkeit, Flexibilit\u00e4t und Reversibilit\u00e4t. Unsere firmeneigene Plattform basiert auf bahnbrechenden Forschungsergebnissen von Pionieren in diesem Bereich und den Mitbegr\u00fcndern des Unternehmens Thorsten Stafforst (Universit\u00e4t T\u00fcbingen) und Jin Billy Li (Stanford University) und erm\u00f6glicht optimale Potenz, Sicherheit und Verabreichung.  <\/p>\n\n<p>AIRNA is advancing a robust pipeline of therapeutic candidates that are designed to provide functional cures for severe or chronic diseases by repairing harmful genetic variants or introducing beneficial variants promote optimal health. AIRNA\u2019s lead program has the potential to be a best-in-class therapeutic for alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD). AIRNA has\u00a0headquarters in Cambridge, MA,\u00a0with research operations in T\u00fcbingen, Germany. Learn more at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/airna.com\/de\/\">https:\/\/airna.com\/<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p><br\/><strong>Medien:<\/strong><br\/>Julie Perlin<br\/>Ten Bridge Communications<br\/><a href=\"mailto:jperlin@tenbridgecommunications.com\">jperlin@tenbridgecommunications.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA und T\u00fcbingen, Deutschland, 16. April 2025 \u2013AIRNA, ein Biotech-Unternehmen, das Pionierarbeit im Bereich RNA-Editing-Therapeutika leistet, um das Leben von Patienten mit seltenen und h\u00e4ufigen Erkrankungen zu ver\u00e4ndern, gab heute die Ernennung von Dr. med. Jacob Elkins zum Chief Medical Officer bekannt. Dr. Jacob Elkins, erfahrener Neurologe und biopharmazeutische F\u00fchrungskraft kommt mit \u00fcber [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pressemitteilungen"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AIRNA ernennt Jacob Elkins zum Chief Medical Officer &#8212; Airna<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA und T\u00fcbingen, Deutschland, 16. 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