Sep. 22, 2009 (PR Newswire) --
BETHESDA, Md., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Micromet, Inc. (Nasdaq: MITI), a biopharmaceutical company developing novel, proprietary antibodies for the treatment of cancer, inflammation and autoimmune diseases, today announced the appointment of Jan Fagerberg, M.D., Ph.D., as Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer effective November 1, 2009.
Dr. Fagerberg is a board-certified clinical oncologist and has more than 20 years of experience in clinical research and development of oncology drugs. His experience includes several years at F. Hoffmann-La Roche in positions of increasing responsibility both in the US and in Switzerland, ultimately serving as the Therapeutic Area Expert Oncology in Global Drug Development of Hoffmann-La Roche in Basel, Switzerland. During his tenure at Roche, he was responsible for the global clinical development of Xeloda, and for the clinical development programs of Avastin outside the US. He was also advising Roche's clinical development teams globally on the development of all compounds for the treatment of gastrointestinal cancers. Dr. Fagerberg has extensive US and European regulatory experience, and was successful in obtaining 11 FDA and EMEA approvals for Xeloda and Avastin. Dr. Fagerberg joins Micromet from TopoTarget where he was Medical Director responsible for the pivotal clinical development program for belinostat for the treatment of peripheral T-cell lymphoma.
"We are very pleased to have Jan Fagerberg join us as our new Chief Medical Officer," said Christian Itin, Micromet's Chief Executive Officer. "Jan's extensive clinical and regulatory experience will be a tremendous asset as we are preparing pivotal stage clinical trials for blinatumomab."
"I am excited about the opportunity to advance the development of blinatumomab for the treatment of patients with hematologic malignancies and of MT110 for the treatment of patients with solid tumors," commented Dr. Jan Fagerberg, "and I am looking forward to translating the highly differentiated properties of BiTE antibodies into new therapies that benefit the lives of cancer patients."
Dr. Fagerberg received his MD degree at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm Sweden in 1988. He then received his Ph.D. for work in clinically applied passive and active immunotherapy targeting EpCAM in colorectal carcinomas in 1995. From 1995 to 1999 Jan held various clinical positions including Associate Head Section of Radiotherapy and Chief Physician at the Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm. Dr. Fagerberg joined Roche in 1999 and over the following seven years assumed positions of increasing responsibility. Since 2006 he has been Medical Director at TopoTarget in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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