Oxford BioTherapeutics Appoints Dr Eugen Leo as Head of Clinical Development

10-Jul-2014 - United Kingdom

Oxford BioTherapeutics announced the appointment of Eugen Leo, MD, PhD, MBA, as Head of Clinical Development. Dr. Leo brings substantial clinical development experience of targeted and first-in-class molecules, as well as extensive translational research experience, and will be responsible for driving the Company’s attractive pipeline of ADCs into clinical development.

Dr. Leo has more than 15 years of experience in phase I-III clinical development of targeted molecules including antibodies, antibody derivatives, kinase inhibitors, vaccines and antisense molecules. He previously worked at Micromet, where he held several positions with increasing seniority and was instrumental in developing the company’s BiTE (bi-specific T-cell engager) antibody platform to clinical proof-of-concept, which received “breakthrough therapy” designation by FDA on July 1, 2014. Thereafter he held senior development positions at major pharmaceutical companies including Johnson & Johnson and Merck Serono, developing various first-in-class molecules in phase I and II.

Dr. Leo is a board-certified haematologist and medical oncologist, and is ESMO-certified. He studied medicine at the Universities of Freiburg, Aachen, Muenster, Zuerich (Switzerland) and Cincinnati (USA), and spent three years as a research fellow at the Sanford-Burnham Institute, La Jolla, CA (USA), working on signal transduction in cancer. He holds an Adjunct Professorship for Experimental Oncology at the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Heidelberg University, Germany. He also obtained an MBA from Colorado State University.

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