BioMedNewsBreaks – Soligenix Inc. (NASDAQ: SNGX) Appoints Tomas J. Philipson, PhD as Strategic Advisor

September 23, 2025 at 11:10 AM EDT

Soligenix (NASDAQ: SNGX), a late-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing products to treat rare diseases, announced the appointment of Tomas J. Philipson, PhD as a Strategic Advisor. Dr. Philipson, an expert in U.S. economic and healthcare policy with extensive academic, business, and government experience, previously served as acting chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers and has advised FDA, CMS, and major healthcare initiatives. He currently serves as Managing Partner of MEDA Ventures and on several corporate boards. Soligenix CEO Christopher J. Schaber, PhD, said Philipson’s expertise and relationships will be instrumental as the company advances its lead product candidate HyBryte(TM) through confirmatory Phase 3 trials and toward commercialization. Dr. Philipson said he looks forward to supporting Soligenix’s mission to bring treatments for rare diseases with unmet medical needs to market.

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About Soligenix

Soligenix is a late-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing products to treat rare diseases where there is an unmet medical need. Our Specialized BioTherapeutics business segment is developing and moving toward potential commercialization of HyBryte(TM) (SGX301 or synthetic hypericin sodium) as a novel photodynamic therapy utilizing safe visible light for the treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL). With successful completion of the second Phase 3 study, regulatory approvals will be sought to support potential commercialization worldwide. Development programs in this business segment also include expansion of synthetic hypericin (SGX302) into psoriasis, our first-in-class innate defense regulator (IDR) technology, dusquetide (SGX942) for the treatment of inflammatory diseases, including oral mucositis in head and neck cancer, and (SGX945) in Behcet’s Disease.

Our Public Health Solutions business segment includes development programs for RiVax(R), our ricin toxin vaccine candidate, as well as our vaccine programs targeting filoviruses (such as Marburg and Ebola) and CiVax(TM), our vaccine candidate for the prevention of COVID-19 (caused by SARS-CoV-2). The development of our vaccine programs incorporates the use of our proprietary heat stabilization platform technology, known as ThermoVax(R). To date, this business segment has been supported with government grant and contract funding from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).

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