SERES THERAPEUTICS, INC. (NASDAQ:MCRB) Files An 8-K Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain OfficersItem 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
On June 7, 2017, Wael Hashad informed Seres Therapeutics, Inc. (the “Company”) of his intention to resign from his position as Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer of the Company, effective as of June 21, 2017, in order to assume a position as the president and chief executive officer of a biopharmaceutical company in California.
About SERES THERAPEUTICS, INC. (NASDAQ:MCRB)
Seres Therapeutics, Inc. is a microbiome therapeutics platform company. The Company is engaged in developing a class of biological drugs, which is referred as Ecobiotic microbiome therapeutics. The Company is focused on implementing its microbiome therapeutics platform to develop Ecobiotic microbiome therapeutics that treats dysbiosis in the colonic microbiome. SER-109 is its lead product candidate, which is designed to prevent further recurrences of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI). The Company is developing additional product candidates, including SER-262 to prevent an initial recurrence of primary CDI, SER-287 to treat inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including ulcerative colitis, and SER-155 to treat enteric bacterial pathogens. The Company is also conducting research on metabolic diseases, such as early-stage, non-insulin dependent diabetes; obesity and metabolic syndrome; other inflammatory diseases; cancer chemotherapy and immune suppression, and rare genetic diseases.
