Kezar Life Sciences, Inc. Announces Appointment of Elizabeth Garner to its Board of Directors
December 19, 2019 at 12:00 pm
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Kezar Life Sciences, Inc. announced the appointment of Elizabeth Garner, MD, MPH to its Board of Directors. Dr. Garner is currently the Chief Medical Officer of ObsEva SA. Dr. Garner brings over a decade of pharmaceutical development experience to Kezar’s board, holding roles of increasing strategic responsibility in large and small companies, including Merck, Abbott (AbbVie), Myriad Genetics, and Agile Therapeutics developing deep expertise in clinical trial design and execution. She joined ObsEva as Chief Medical Officer in July 2019, and she was previously Chief Medical Officer at Agile Therapeutics, where she led the company’s clinical development, regulatory, and medical affairs strategies and presented and moderated the company’s successful 2019 FDA Advisory Committee.
Kezar Life Sciences, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing small molecule therapeutics to treat unmet needs in immune-mediated diseases and cancer. The Company's lead product candidate, zetomipzomib, is a first-in-class selective immunoproteasome inhibitor that has completed Phase Ia testing in healthy volunteers and a Phase Ib/IIa clinical trial in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), with or without lupus nephritis (LN). Its oncology product candidate, KZR-261, is a small molecule agent, targeting the Sec61 translocon and protein secretion pathway, being studied in an open-label Phase I clinical trial designed to evaluate safety and tolerability, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, as well to explore preliminary anti-tumor activity. This study is being conducted in two parts: dose escalation in patients with locally advanced or metastatic solid malignancies, and dose expansion in patients with selected tumor types.
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