Danish biotech Acesion Pharma has hired Jakob Dynnes Hansen as its Chief Financial Officer. He joins from Evolva, a Swiss biotech company, where he has been CFO since 2007.
PharmaMar is driving the expansion of its US operations. To this end, the company has appointed Pascal Besman to the newly created role of Chief Operation Officer of the marine-derived oncology drug developers US subsidiary, PharmaMar US. 
The BIA has added three new members to the Board of Directors. Calchan CEO Brenda Reynolds (pictured), Immunocore Chief Business Officer Eva-Lotta Allan and Polar Capital’s Partner – Healthcare Dan Mahony will join the board of the British BioIndustry Association from January 2017.

Until mid-October, cancer immunotherapy play Medigene AG was a pure drug developer. With a potential US$1bn TCR-contract manufacturing deal with Bluebird Bio, it widened its business focus. Now, the company presented a process that delivers neospecific anti-tumour TCRs.

Swiss cancer meds world market leader Roche intensifies its focus on translational research to broaden the scope of cancer immunotherapies. 

Swiss cancer meds world market leader Roche intensifies its focus on translational research to broaden the scope of cancer immunotherapies. 

Swiss cancer meds world market leader Roche intensifies its focus on translational research to broaden the scope of cancer immunotherapies. 

Swiss cancer meds world market leader Roche intensifies its focus on translational research to broaden the scope of cancer immunotherapies. 

Swiss cancer meds world market leader Roche intensifies its focus on translational research to broaden the scope of cancer immunotherapies. 

Swiss cancer meds world market leader Roche intensifies its focus on translational research to broaden the scope of cancer immunotherapies.