Jaguar Health Appoints Biopharmaceutical Industry Veteran to Execute Company's In-licensing Growth Strategy in the Areas of Cancer and GI Supportive Care

Catherine Miller Collis was instrumental in bringing about Jaguar's recent in-license agreement for FDA-approved Gelclair^®, a protective gel for management of oral mucositis, a common, painful, and debilitating cancer treatment-related side effect

SAN FRANCISCO, CA / ACCESSWIRE / April 18, 2024 / Jaguar Health, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAGX) ("Jaguar") today announced that it has appointed biopharmaceutical industry veteran Catherine Miller Collis to the role of Senior Vice President of Growth Strategy.

"Cathy Collis was instrumental in bringing about the Gelclair in-license agreement. She is a results-oriented commercial leader with more than 25 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry, and we are thrilled she has joined Jaguar's team in the important role of Senior Vice President of Growth Strategy," said Lisa Conte, Jaguar's president and CEO. "We are confident that her extensive commercial and business development experience will prove invaluable as we continue to evolve and execute our in-licensing growth strategy in the areas of cancer and GI supportive care, initiate the commercial launch of Gelclair, and focus on our ongoing mission to serve patients in need around the globe."

"I am very happy to have joined the Jaguar team and to have helped add Gelclair to the company's suite of FDA-approved prescription products," Collis said. "Cancer is chaotic, because patients feel a loss of control - over their life, their treatment, and their supportive care needs. We can help cancer patients by giving them a supportive care product for oral mucositis that provides soothing pain relief without numbing and is effective and safe. I look forward to helping Jaguar identify, in-license, and commercially launch additional products for significant unmet supportive care needs for complex disease states like cancer."

"We are expanding our footprint beyond HIV-related supportive care to include cancer-related supportive care, and the in-license of Gelclair is a first building block while we await the forthcoming results from our pivotal Phase 3 OnTarget trial of crofelemer for cancer therapy-related diarrhea, an indication we also refer to as chemotherapy-induced overactive bowel (CIOB) - which includes symptoms such as unpredictable and/or chronic debilitating diarrhea and GI urgency," Conte added. "We live in the age targeted therapies, and thanks to these amazing drugs patients are living longer - 5, 10, 20 years. Targeted therapies often lead to more severe side effects, however, and people with cancer want to live, not just survive."