Date: 2017-10-02
Type of information: Nomination
Compound: chief executive officer - chief scientific officer
Company: KSQ Therapeutics (USA - MA)
Therapeutic area: Cancer - Oncology
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- • On October 2, 2017, KSQ Therapeutics announced the appointment of David Meeker as Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Meeker most recently served as Head of the Specialty Care Business Unit of Sanofi-Genzyme and previously was Chief Executive Officer and President of Genzyme, a Sanofi company. He brings more than 20 years of industry leadership experience, from leading-edge R&D programs to global operational roles.
- KSQ also announced Frank Stegmeier, PhD, as Chief Scientific Officer and George Golumbeski, PhD, as Executive Advisor and Board Member. Dr. Stegmeier is a leading expert in industrialized functional genomics who led Oncology Target Discovery at Novartis prior to joining KSQ. He has led KSQ’s platform development and R&D efforts since the company’s formation in 2015, demonstrating the early productivity of CRISPRomics. Dr. Golumbeski is a business development executive with an outstanding track record of success in the pharmaceutical industry. During his more than 25-year career, he has identified and evaluated innovative technologies and drug candidates from early-stage biotech companies and accelerated their drug innovation potential through creative partnerships.
- Since the company’s formation in 2015, KSQ has deployed its CRISPRomics engine to complete the functional assessment of each gene in more than 600 tumor and immune models. The company has compiled new insights in disease biology to identify novel drug targets and new drug combinations designed to elicit maximal impact on disease. This approach has produced KSQ’s initial pipeline of drug development programs, and will serve as a product engine across a wide range of disease areas for the company and future collaborators. KSQ has grown to a team of more than 40 employees.
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