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Calliditas reorganizes its management team
Calliditas Therapeutics AB (publ) ("Calliditas")
today announced that it has reorganized its management team.
From today, the company's management team will consist
Ren e Aguiar-Lucander, CEO
Fredrik Johansson, CFO
Dr Richard Philipson, CMO
Frank Bringstrup, Vice President Regulatory Affairs
Andrew Udell, Head of North America, Commercial
Katayoun Welin-Berger, Vice President Operations
"Calliditas will continue to build and benefit from a
broad and highly competent senior team which operates in an integrated manner. As the company has grown there is now need for a
smaller and more focused executive group to support this structure and continue to leverage this cross functional expertise.",
said CEO Ren e Aguiar-Lucander.
Due to the growing number of employees in the US, Andrew Udell
has been appointed as Head of North America, Commercial and will be responsible for implementation and execution of medical affairs,
market access, as well as sales and marketing in the US.
For further information, please contact:
Ren e Aguiar-Lucander, CEO at Calliditas
Tel.: +46 722 52 10 06, email: renee.lucander@calliditas.com
Mikael Widell, Head of Communications and IR
Tel.: +46 703 11 99 60, email: mikael.widell@calliditas.com
The information was sent for publication, through the agency
of the contact persons set out above, on July 24, 2020 at 8:00 a.m. CET.
Calliditas Therapeutics is a specialty pharmaceutical company
based in Stockholm, Sweden focused on identifying, developing and commercializing novel treatments in orphan indications, with
an initial focus on renal and hepatic diseases with significant unmet medical needs. Calliditas' lead product candidate,
Nefecon, is a proprietary, novel oral formulation of budesonide, an established, highly potent local immunosuppressant, for the
treatment of the autoimmune renal disease IgA nephropathy, or IgAN, for which there is a high unmet medical need and there are
no approved treatments. Calliditas is running a global Phase 3 study within IgAN and, if approved, aims to commercialize Nefecon
in the United States. Calliditas is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm (ticker: CALTX) and the Nasdaq Global Select Market (ticker: CALT).
Visit www.calliditas.com for further information.