Senior Vice President, Research & Development, ModMab Therapeutics, Inc.
Biography
Over 15 years of experience in oncology drug discovery and development/antibody therapeutics and more than 20 years of experience in the life science research as a biochemist/molecular cell biologist. Recognized in the scientific and pharmaceutical communities for inventing and developing a novel and innovative THIOMAB technology platform to obtain engineered ADCs with defined number of payloads per conjugate. Authored over 100 patents/peer-reviewed publications and have been a featured keynote speaker at many international high-profile scientific conferences. Led cross-functional teams in the discovery of innovative Antibody Dug Conjugates (ADCs) and Bi-specific cancer immunotherapeutic programs. Core member of launched T-DM1 (Kadcyla) R&D team. Led the teams, which discovered and developed a next generation site-specific T-DM1 ADC project and over 10 other ADC/Bi-specific antibody therapeutic candidates. Leveraged several cross-functional teams in discovery research, pre-clinical research and manufacturing to move antibody based therapeutic molecules from discovery to IND.
