Allogene Therapeutics, Inc. Appoints Rafael G. Amado as Executive Vice President of Research and Development and Chief Medical Officer
August 05, 2019 at 11:00 am
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Allogene Therapeutics, Inc. announced the appointment of Rafael G. Amado, M.D. as Executive Vice President of Research and Development and Chief Medical Officer. In this new position, Dr. Amado will lead Allogene’s clinical and research functions with the goal of rapidly advancing the company pipeline of allogeneic CAR T therapies for hematologic and solid tumors. Dr. Amado’s addition to the senior leadership team at Allogene reunites him with many former colleagues, including Arie Belldegrun, M.D. FACS, Executive Chairman and Co-Founder, who previously worked with Dr. Amado at UCLA and David Chang, M.D., Ph.D., President, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, who worked with him at UCLA and Amgen. Dr. Amado is expected to start with Allogene on or about September 3, 2019. Dr. Amado has more than 15 years of biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry experience leading clinical and research teams. He joins Allogene from Adaptimmune, where he served as President of R&D, after serving as Chief Medical Officer. Prior to Adaptimmune, he held several roles of increasing responsibility at GSK, most recently as Senior Vice President and Head of Oncology R&D.
Allogene Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company. The Company is focused on development of genetically engineered allogeneic T cell product candidates for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. It is focused on four core programs: Large B-Cell Lymphoma (LBCL), Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL), Autoimmune Disease and Renal Cell Carcinoma. It is developing a pipeline of multiple allogeneic chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell product candidates utilizing protein engineering, gene editing, gene insertion and advanced proprietary T cell manufacturing technologies. Its product candidate, cemacabtagene ansegedleucel, referred to as cema-cel, is an engineered allogeneic CAR T cell product candidate that targets CD19, a protein expressed on the cell surface of B cells and a validated target for B cell driven hematological malignancies. It is focused on developing cema-cel for LBCL and CLL. Its pipeline also includes ALLO-316, ALLO-329 and ALLO-647.
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