Advaxis and Ayala Pharmaceuticals Complete Merger

24 January 2023 | Tuesday | News

Advaxis, Inc. (OTCQX: ADXS), a biotechnology company devoted to the discovery, development and commercialization of immunotherapies based on a technology which uses engineered Listeria monocytogenes (Lm), today announced the completion of a previously announced merger with Ayala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: AYLA), a clinical-stage oncology company focused on developing and commercializing small molecule therapeutics for patients suffering from rare tumors and aggressive cancers.
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Pic Courtesy : Public Domain

While the stock will continue to trade on OTC under the symbol ADXS, the merged company will operate under the name Ayala Pharmaceuticals. The merged company will be focused primarily on the development and commercialization of Ayala’s lead program AL102 for the treatment of desmoid tumors. As previously disclosed, the company is seeking to uplist to Nasdaq in the near future, but there is no guarantee that this effort will be successful.

Management and Board of Directors

Kenneth A Berlin, President and Chief Executive Officer of Advaxis, will be President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of the company; Andres Gutierrez, M.D., Ph.D., will be the Chief Medical Officer; and Igor Gitelman will be the Interim Chief Financial Officer. The board of directors consists of David Sidransky, M.D., as chairman, Roni Appel, Samir Khleif, M.D., Vered Bisker-Leib, M.D., Murray A. Goldberg, Robert Spiegel, M.D., and Ken Berlin.

 

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