Adagene Inc. announced the appointment of Professor Aurélien Marabelle, MD, PhD, to its Scientific and Strategic Advisory Board (the “SAB”). Professor Marabelle is a physician-scientist with expertise in oncology and immunology. His clinical practice is dedicated to early phase clinical trials of cancer immunotherapies with strong translational evidence within the Drug Development Department (DITEP) of Gustave Roussy Cancer Center in France.

He leads a translational research laboratory (LRTI) within the INSERM U1015 with a focus on mechanisms of action of immune targeted therapies. In addition to his clinical and translational research, Professor Marabelle is also the director of the Clinical Investigation Center BIOTHERIS dedicated to intratumoral immunotherapies (INSERM CIC1428). He is a full professor of Clinical Immunology at the University of Paris Saclay.

He was initially trained as a scientist in the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon and King's College London and as a clinician at the Léon Bérard Cancer Center in Lyon, France. He did his post-doctoral research fellowship in the laboratory of Professor Ronald Levy at Stanford University on strategies to overcome the resistance to immune checkpoint targeted therapies. Professor Marabelle is also an active member of ESMO, ASCO, AACR, SITC, EATI and is the current President of the French Society for Cancer Immunotherapies (FITC).

He has published more than 250 peer-reviewed publications.