Company: SION
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-101830
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Company: Sionna Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: DEF 14A
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 currently serves as general partner. He also serves, or has previously served, as an advisor in various capacities to Takeda Pharmaceuticals Company Limited (NYSE: TAK), UCB Biopharmaceuticals and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Booth co-founded Kymera Therapeutics, Inc. and has served as chairman of its board of directors since April 2016. He has also served as chairman of Vigil Neuroscience, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIGIL) since June 2020. Dr. Booth is chair or a member of the boards of directors of several private companies, including Nimbus Therapeutics, LLC, HotSpot Therapeutics, Inc., Arkuda Therapeutics, Inc. and Matchpoint Therapeutics, Inc. Dr. Booth previously served on the boards of directors of AVROBIO, Inc. (now Tectonic Therapeutic, Inc. (NASDAQ: TECX)) from February 2016 to June 2024, Magenta Therapeutics, Inc. (now Dianthus Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: DNTH)) from February 2016 to September 2023 and Unum Therapeutics, Inc. (now Cogent Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: COGT)) from October 2014 to July 2020 and several private companies. Dr. Booth earned a B.S. in biochemistry, summa cum laude, from Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Booth was a British Marshall Scholar and earned a D.Phil. in molecular immunology from Oxford University’s Nuffield Department of Medicine. We believe Dr. Booth’s extensive leadership, executive, managerial and business experience with life sciences companies and experience as a public company board member provides him with the appropriate set of skills to serve as a member of our board of directors.

Lucian Iancovici, M.D. has served as a member of our board of directors since December 2019. Dr. Iancovici is currently a managing director with TPG Global, LLC, a private equity investment firm, where he has worked since January 2018. From September 2012 to October 2017, Dr. Iancovici served as the head of the Qualcomm Life Fund (“Qualcomm”), a venture fund focused on investing in digital health technologies. From January 2015 to October 2017, Dr. Iancovici was a general partner at dRx Capital, a joint venture investment company launched by Novartis AG and Qualcomm. From