Date: 2016-01-21
Type of information: Nomination
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Company: Affimed (Germany)
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Details: * On January 21, 2016, Affimed, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing highly targeted cancer immunotherapies, announced the appointment of Dr. Joerg Windisch to the position of Chief Operating Officer. As COO, Dr. Windisch will provide his broad expertise in pharmaceutical regulatory affairs, quality control and project management to support the Company's expanding clinical pipeline. The Company also announced the addition of Dr. Bernhard Ehmer to its Supervisory Board. Dr. Ehmer brings an extensive clinical development track record in biopharmaceuticals from both sides of the Atlantic.
Dr. Windisch joins Affimed after spending 20 years at Sandoz Biopharmaceuticals (a Novartis company), most recently serving as Chief Science Officer. He joined Novartis in 1996 in the biologics unit of Sandoz, where he played a leading role in the development of Somatropin (Omnitrope®), the first ever biosimilar medicine, as well as of Sandoz' Epoetinalfa (Binocrit®) and Filgrastim (Zarzio®) products. Over the course of 15 years he built an international technical development organization for biologics and for five years Dr. Windisch also led the joint biologics technical development and manufacturing organization for Novartis Pharma and Sandoz. He was involved in the development and manufacturing of about 20 biologics, six of which are currently marketed. Dr. Windisch was educated in Austria, Germany and the U.S. and received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Innsbruck.
Dr. Ehmer has been Chairman of the Management Board of Biotest AG since January 2015. Prior to this, he worked for the Imclone Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Eli Lilly, as President of Imclone Systems Corporation in the United States and as Managing Director in Germany. In 2007/2008 he was CEO of Fresenius Biotech, Germany and before this, Dr. Ehmer headed the Business Area Oncology of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt and served as Head of Global Clinical Operations at Merck. Between 1986 and 1998 he held various functions at Boehringer Mannheim in Germany, Italy and Singapore. Dr. Ehmer holds a degree in medicine and worked in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Academic Teaching Hospital of the University of Heidelberg.
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