If you followed the companys announcements, you would have read...

Great catch Jellyroll - thought I would reply out from my planned longer term hiatus with my thoughts. I also see it as a "next step" feel.

"Provide clinical and scientific input into Discovery Research and Early Development Activities" - Second indication?
"Regarding disease areas" - Plural

Scaling the team to handle an early discovery processes/trial structure?

To me the wording points towards that direction.


Furthermore,

If you followed the companys announcements, you would have read that the first UK site was activated for immediate recruitment and randomisation back in October of last year, a quarter ago now. If you visited the company website just once, you would have known the team didnt have a CMO, just a CSO (Alex Sinclair) and COO (Carol Parish). Concerning the lack of knowledge about key fundamentals.