Cellectar Biosciences, Inc. Appoints Igor Grachev as Chief Medical Officer
January 07, 2020 at 06:30 pm IST
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Cellectar Biosciences, Inc. announced it has appointed Dr. Igor Grachev as Chief Medical Officer effective as of January 6, 2020. Igor Grachev, M.D., Ph.D., brings nearly 20 years of industry experience to Cellectar having led clinical development programs at both multinational pharmaceutical and biotech organizations. He served as Global Development Leader and Head of Innovative Clinical Trials Initiative, R&D for TEVA Branded Specialty Pharmaceuticals, where he was responsible for the development, execution and management of clinical programs worldwide across all phases of clinical research, achieving regulatory approvals in multiple countries. Dr. Grachev also had clinical development and medical affairs leadership roles at GE Healthcare, Novartis, GSK, Merck, Schering Plough, Sanofi-Aventis, and BioClinica. Dr. Grachev is a former Assistant Professor of Radiology at SUNY Upstate Medical University and as a Fellow in Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Grachev is well-published in the field of radiopharmaceuticals, drug development and innovative clinical trials. He also possesses extensive oncology radiopharmaceutical and diagnostic development experience with GE Healthcare where he had global responsibility for Phase 2-4 clinical trials.
Cellectar Biosciences, Inc. is a late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical company. The Company is focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of drugs for the treatment of cancer. The Company, through phospholipid ether drug conjugate (PDC) delivery platform, is focused on developing PDCs that are designed to specifically target cancer cells. Its PDC platform possesses the potential for the discovery and development of cancer-targeting treatments, and it plans to develop PDCs both independently and through research and development collaborations. Its product pipeline includes iopofosine, a small-molecule PDC designed to provide targeted delivery of iodine-131 (radioisotope), preclinical PDC chemotherapeutic programs and multiple partnered PDC assets. Its Iopofosine is evaluated in the completed CLOVER-WaM Phase 2 pivotal study in patients with relapsed/refractory (r/r) Waldenstromâs macroglobulinemia (WM).