Napo Pharmaceuticals, Jaguar Health’s Subsidiary, Appoints Darlene Horton as Chief Medical Officer

Napo Pharmaceuticals Inc., the wholly-owned subsidiary of Jaguar Health, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAGX) ("Jaguar" or the "Company"), announced today the appointment of Darlene Horton, M.D., a biopharmaceutical veteran and leading clinical development expert, to the role of Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for Napo.

"We are thrilled that Darlene is bringing her strong clinical experience together with deep industry experience and operational leadership, which will support Napo's ongoing phase 3 clinical trial with crofelemer for prophylaxis of diarrhea in adult cancer patients receiving targeted cancer therapy ("cancer therapy‑related diarrhea" (CTD))," said Pravin Chaturvedi, PhD, Napo/Jaguar Chair, Scientific Advisory Board and acting Chief Scientific Officer. "Darlene has a deep background in drug development, and her leadership and stewardship will augment our ongoing clinical studies for CTD as well as other planned indications."

Dr. Horton brings 25 years of clinical research and development, medical affairs, senior executive, and consulting experience in the development of investigational and commercialized biopharmaceutical and drug-device combination products. She has extensive clinical development experience in multiple therapeutic areas including cardiology, oncology, immunology, orthopedics, gastroenterology, women's health, and endocrinology. Prior to joining Napo, she led clinical development and regulatory strategy as CMO at Coherus Biosciences, Itero Biopharmaceuticals, and SMC Biotechnology. As Head of Clinical and Medical Affairs at Scios, she led the clinical development program that led to the approval of Natrecor® and was on the senior executive team when Scios was acquired by JNJ for $2.4B. At JNJ, she co-led (with strategic marketing) the cardiovascular therapeutic area when JNJ in-licensed and began developing the blockbuster drug Xarelto®. She also served as CEO at Nile Therapeutics and TulangCo Inc. Dr. Horton completed her Pediatric Cardiology fellowship and Pediatrics Residency at UCSF. She holds M.D. and B.S. in Microbiology degrees from the University of Florida.

"I am very excited to join Napo at this important time, when both our lead CTD program and efforts to pursue conditional marketing authorization from the European Medicines Agency for crofelemer through Napo EU are underway," said Dr. Horton. "I believe crofelemer's novel mechanism of action has the potential to benefit multiple gastrointestinal disorders. I am delighted to be partnering with the experienced Napo and Jaguar leadership teams and look forward to helping the Company expand access to crofelemer."

Mytesi (crofelemer) is a non-opiate, plant-based, chloride ion channel modulating antidiarrheal medicine that is FDA approved for the symptomatic relief of noninfectious diarrhea in adult patients with HIV/AIDS receiving antiretroviral therapy. The only oral plant-based prescription medicine approved under FDA Botanical Guidance, Mytesi has a novel mechanism of action that works locally in the gut by gently and effectively modulating and normalizing the flow of water and electrolytes with minimal systemic absorption.

About Jaguar Health, Inc. and Napo Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Jaguar Health, Inc. is a commercial stage pharmaceuticals company focused on developing novel, plant-based, non-opioid, and sustainably derived prescription medicines for people and animals with GI distress, specifically chronic, debilitating diarrhea. Our wholly owned subsidiary, Napo Pharmaceuticals, Inc., focuses on developing and commercializing proprietary plant-based human gastrointestinal pharmaceuticals from plants harvested responsibly from rainforest areas. Our Mytesi® (crofelemer) product is approved by the U.S. FDA for the symptomatic relief of noninfectious diarrhea in adults with HIV/AIDS on antiretroviral therapy and the only oral plant-based prescription medicine approved under FDA Botanical Guidance.