Kezar Life Sciences, Inc. Announces Appointment of Noreen R. Henig, Md as Chief Medical Officer
May 04, 2020 at 09:50 pm
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Kezar Life Sciences, Inc. announced the appointment of Noreen R. Henig, MD as its Chief Medical Officer. As an integral member of the Company's Executive Leadership team, Dr. Henig will oversee all aspects of the Company's clinical development, regulatory and medical affairs. Noreen Roth Henig, M.D. is a seasoned leader whose career spans clinical practice, academic medicine, translational science, clinical development, medical and regulatory affairs. She currently serves on the Board of Avidity Biosciences and most recently served as Chief Medical Officer of Breath Therapeutics, which was acquired by Zambon SpA in 2019. As CMO, Dr. Henig built and led the clinical team and was responsible for all development activities including clinical and non-clinical science, clinical operations, regulatory, project management, and medical affairs. Prior to joining Breath, Dr. Henig was Chief Medical Officer at ProQR Therapeutics where she brought two unique RNA oligonucleotides through early clinical trials in rare diseases.
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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