Mersana Therapeutics, Inc. Announces Board Changes
April 15, 2020 at 01:17 pm
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On April 13, 2020, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Mersana Therapeutics, Inc. (the Company) increased the size of the Board from six to seven directors and appointed Martin Huber, M.D., to serve as a Class I director for a term expiring at the Company’s 2021 annual meeting of stockholders or upon his earlier death, resignation or removal. The Board also appointed Dr. Huber to serve as a member of the Board’s Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. On April 15, 2020, the company announced Dr. Huber’s appointment to the Board. Dr. Huber most recently served as Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at TESARO, Inc. before its acquisition by GSK. While at TESARO, he drove the expansion of the niraparib program and advanced the company’s immuno-oncology agents into the clinic. Prior to that, he was Vice President, Oncology Clinical Research at Merck Research Laboratories where he was the program lead for pembrolizumab in non-small cell lung cancer. Prior to Merck he served in roles of increasing responsibility at Schering-Plough, Hoffmann-La Roche and Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, where he led teams in the areas of oncology clinical development, drug safety and pharma covigilance.
Mersana Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, which is focused on the development of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), which offer a clinically meaningful benefit for cancer patients with significant unmet needs. It has developed two proprietary and differentiated ADC platforms: Dolasynthen and Immunosynthen. Dolasynthen is its cytotoxic ADC platform that is designed to generate site-specific, homogeneous ADCs. Immunosynthen is its proprietary stimulator of interferon genes (STING)-agonist platform that is designed to generate systemically administered ADCs that locally activate STING signaling in both antigen-expressing tumor cells and in tumor-resident immune cells. The Company's pipeline also includes XMT-1660, a Dolasynthen ADC targeting B7-H4 in a Phase I clinical trial, and XMT-2056, an Immunosynthen ADC targeting a novel epitope of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2), in addition to other earlier-stage assets.
MERSANA THERAPEUTICS, INC. 
