Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. announced that Raj K. Puri, M.D., Ph.D., will join the Company as Executive Vice President, Regulatory Strategy and Translational Medicine. Dr. Puri will begin his employment with the Company toward the end of the first quarter of 2022. For more than 19 years, Dr. Puri has served as the director of the Division of Cellular and Gene Therapies (DCGT) in the Office of Tissues and Advanced Therapies at the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in its Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.

He is also a Chief of Tumor Vaccines and Biotechnology Branch within DCGT.