Ittero Therapeutics


Overview

Ittero Therapeutics is a start-up pharmaceutical company with the mission of developing and commercializing treatments for rare genetic disorders caused by DNA Trinucleotide Repeat Expansions prevalent in >20 diseases. We will leverage recent groundbreaking target validation data in cellular and animal models of Friedreich’s Ataxia (FRDA) to develop first in-class disease modifying molecules to enter the clinic in less than 3 years.

Management Team

Founder, Chief Executive Officer

Ahmad-Reza Saadat

Ahmad has 20 plus years of dug development experience including discovery research, finance, corporate development, portfolio management and commercialization. Recently, at Sarepta, he contributed to US approval and launch of eteplirsen and golodirsen for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Ahmad earned an MBA from Babson College, a Masters in Pharmacology from Northeastern and a BS in Chemistry from University of Massachusetts.