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Relief Therapeutics Announces Executive Changes - Seite 2

Dr. Varawalla will join Relief from Atlantic Healthcare plc, a specialist pharmaceutical company with late-stage clinical assets for inflammatory bowel disease and gastrointestinal dysmotility in rare diseases, where she served as Chief Medical Officer and Head of Clinical Development. Before that, Dr. Varawalla was Managing Director of Clinstrat Ltd, a life science and healthcare business consultancy, where, among other projects, she worked with private equity firms to develop the investment thesis and business plan for the buy-out of BTG plc's specialty pharmaceutical business unit, valued at approximately $1 billion. Before that, Dr. Varawalla was Senior Vice President and Head of Clinical Development at BTG International plc, where she led a global team responsible for clinical development of the company's product portfolio across both pharmaceutical and medical device business units before it was acquired by Boston Scientific for $4.4 billion in 2019.

Earlier, Dr. Varawalla was Chief Medical Officer at Accord Healthcare UK, an international division of Intas Pharmaceuticals and Executive Vice President of Lambda Therapeutic Research, Intas' full-service contract research organization. She began her career as a physician in obstetrics and gynecology at KEM Group of University Hospitals, Mumbai before continuing her specialist training at NHS University Hospitals in the United Kingdom. She is the current President of the INSEAD UK Alumni Association and is presently Chair, Medical Advisory Group, Atorvia Health Technologies and a Member of the International Advisory Council of the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development.

Dr. Varawalla received both her MBBS, Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, and MD degree from the University of Mumbai; her PhD from the University of Oxford where she was a Rhodes Research Fellow and her MBA from INSEAD.

"I am honoured and delighted to accept the role of Chief Medical Officer with Relief," said Dr. Varawalla. "I look forward to working with the company's talented management team to develop and commercialize new medicines that will address important unmet medical needs for patients around the world."

Relief also announced today that Jeremy Meinen, who currently serves as Relief's Vice President of Finance and Administration, will also assume the role of Chief Accounting Officer. In that new role, he will continue to report to Jack Weinstein, Relief's Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer.