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Genocea Appoints Girish Aakalu, Ph.D., Chief Business Officer | ||
By: Nasdaq / GlobeNewswire - 10 Dec 2018 | Back to overview list |
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Role to focus on business development as Genocea expands its immunotherapy pipeline and explores additional applications of its ATLAS™ neoantigen identification platform CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 10, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Genocea Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: GNCA), a biopharmaceutical company developing personalized cancer immunotherapies, today announced the hiring of industry veteran Girish Aakalu, Ph.D., as its new Chief Business Officer. In this role, Dr. Aakalu will lead the company’s business development efforts. “With his track record of success and strategic acumen, Girsh is a great addition to the Genocea leadership team,” said Chip Clark, President & CEO of Genocea. “Business development continues to play a key role in our plans for leadership in the cancer immunotherapy field, and we believe that Girish will help us maximize our pipeline opportunities and capitalize on the myriad of possible applications of our ATLAS™ platform, which uses each patient’s immune response machinery to identify and characterize antigens, rather than relying on predictive approaches.” Dr. Aakalu brings a broad skillset to Genocea, spanning business development, corporate and R&D strategy, product portfolio management, commercial planning, and alliance management, following positions at the Ipsen Group, a global specialty biopharmaceutical company, which included Vice President: Global Head of External Innovation, and positions at Pfizer, Inc., which included Executive Director: Head of Strategy, Innovation & Operations for Pfizer’s External R&D Innovation team. His previous roles also include business development and oncology pipeline market planning positions at Genentech, Inc. and life science consulting experience at L.E.K Consulting. He received a B.A. in Biophysics from Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology from the California Institute of Technology. About Genocea Biosciences, Inc. Genocea Forward-Looking Statement Contact: |
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