SAB Biotherapeutics Appoints Jay Skyler, MD, to the Board of Directors

MIAMI, May 06, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SAB Biotherapeutics (Nasdaq: SABS) (the “Company” or “SAB”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company with a novel immunotherapy platform developing a human anti-thymocyte immunoglobulin (hIgG) for delaying the onset or progression of type 1 diabetes (T1D), today announced that Jay Skyler, MD, MACP, FRCP has been appointed to the company’s Board of Directors.

“Dr. Skyler’s appointment to our Board of Directors is a major milestone for SAB,” said Samuel J. Reich, SAB’s chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “His deep expertise in type 1 diabetes research and leadership in the field will provide insights that will be invaluable to our SAB-142 program. Speaking on behalf of the Board, we are honored to add Dr. Skyler to the Board of Directors and look forward to his contributions as we continue to advance a disease-modifying therapy.”

“I look forward to a future where we may delay the onset or progression of type 1 diabetes, and I’m optimistic about SAB’s potential role in that milestone with the novel approach of SAB-142,” noted Dr. Skyler of his appointment. “Disease modification is a nascent but critically important field, particularly in type 1 diabetes where prevention of immune destruction and preservation of beta cell mass or function are both considered ideal therapeutic goals.”

Dr. Skyler’s career in diabetes spans more than five decades, and he is currently a Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, & Psychology, in the Division of Endocrinology Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, where he served as Director of that Division from 2000 to 2004. From 1993 until 2015, he was Chairman of the NIH (NIDDK)-sponsored Diabetes Prevention Trial - Type 1 (DPT-1) and its successor Type 1 Diabetes TrialNet, a nationwide (and global) network conducting clinical trials to interdict type 1 diabetes.

He is Deputy Director for Clinical Research and Academic Programs at the Diabetes Research Institute, University of Miami, where he previously was Area Leader for Immunomodulation and Tolerance. He also is a Member of the University of Miami Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute.

A native of Philadelphia, Dr. Skyler is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University and Jefferson Medical College, and did his postgraduate training in Internal Medicine and in Endocrinology & Metabolism at Duke University Medical Center.