Chemomab Therapeutics Ltd. announced the appointment of Matthew Frankel, MD, MBA as Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and Vice President of Drug Development. Dr. Frankel most recently served as Vice President, Clinical Development and Medical Affairs, Specialty Pharma at Boehringer Ingelheim, where he led functional teams developing new drugs for oncology, immunology, pulmonary, and central nervous system diseases. Previously Dr. Frankel was Vice President & Head, Immunology and Dermatology Medical Unit at Novartis, where he oversaw medical affairs activities and late phase clinical development for Cosentyx®, Ilaris®, and Zortress®.

 At the Sandoz unit of Novartis, Dr. Frankel successfully built and led the medical affairs organization supporting the biopharmaceutical, biosimilar and generics businesses for launches including Kerydin®, Glatopa® and Zarxio®. Earlier in his career, Dr. Frankel held clinical development leadership roles across geographies and therapeutic disease areas at Reata, Fibrogen, Abbott Labs, and Schering Plough. Dr. Frankel received a BA degree from Vassar College, an MD degree from the University of California School of Medicine, Los Angeles and an MBA from the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

 He is board certified in internal medicine.