Cellectar Biosciences, Inc. Appoints John Friend, II, M.D. as Vice President and Chief Medical Officer Effective April 17, 2017
April 12, 2017 at 06:00 pm IST
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Cellectar Biosciences, Inc. announced that it has appointed John Friend, II, M.D. as vice president and chief medical officer effective April 17, 2017. Cellectar has accelerated and expanded its research and development program to include multiple clinical trials for lead product candidate CLR 131, as well as the active preclinical development of additional compounds utilizing PDC platform. Dr. Friend, age 47, brings 15 years of global drug development expertise and general management experience in oncology, inflammation, endocrine/metabolism, and pain management to Cellectar. Prior to joining the company, John spent more than seven years at Helsinn Therapeutics leading its research and development division. Most recently he served as senior vice president of Medical and Scientific Affairs at Helsinn, building the non-clinical, clinical, medical and regulatory affairs teams to lead multiple global franchises from early product development to market commercialization. Prior to his time at Helsinn, Dr. Friend held executive responsibility for clinical research, medical affairs, pharmacovigilance and risk management at various pharmaceutical companies including Akros Pharma, Actavis, Alpharma, Hospira and Abbott.
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).