Enzon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Appoints Richard Mulligan, Ph.D. Vice-Chairman of the Board; Adopts Majority Vote Standard for Election of Directors

PISCATAWAY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Enzon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENZN) today announced that Richard C. Mulligan, Ph.D., has been appointed Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors, effective immediately. Dr. Mulligan, the Mallinckrodt Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Harvard Gene Therapy Initiative, was elected to Enzon’s Board of Directors at the 2009 annual meeting of stockholders.