Allogene Therapeutics Appoints Jae Park to Its Scientific Advisory Board
September 20, 2021 at 08:30 am EDT
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Allogene Therapeutics, Inc. announced the appointment of Jae Park, M.D., acting Chief of Cellular Therapeutics at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, to its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). Dr. Park, widely recognized as one of the world experts in cell therapies, is the leading principal investigator of several clinical trials in patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia and acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Dr. Park is Associate Attending Physician in the Division of Hematologic Oncology, Leukemia Service, a Director of Adult Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Program and the Acting Chief of Cellular Therapeutics Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, New York. Dr. Park received his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and completed an internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and a hematology/oncology fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Dr. Park has written numerous peer-reviewed articles appearing in New England Journal of Medicine, Science Translational Medicine, Blood, Cancer Discovery andJournal of Clinical Oncology. His research – which focuses on translating and establishing novel targeted and immunotherapies for patients with hematologic malignancies – has been recognized and funded by the The American Society of Hematology, The American Association for Cancer Research, The American Society of Clinical Oncology, The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, The Geoffrey Beene Research Foundation, and The National Comprehensive Cancer Network.
Allogene Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company. The Company is focused on development of genetically engineered allogeneic T cell product candidates for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. It is focused on four core programs: Large B-Cell Lymphoma (LBCL), Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL), Autoimmune Disease and Renal Cell Carcinoma. It is developing a pipeline of multiple allogeneic chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell product candidates utilizing protein engineering, gene editing, gene insertion and advanced proprietary T cell manufacturing technologies. Its product candidate, cemacabtagene ansegedleucel, referred to as cema-cel, is an engineered allogeneic CAR T cell product candidate that targets CD19, a protein expressed on the cell surface of B cells and a validated target for B cell driven hematological malignancies. It is focused on developing cema-cel for LBCL and CLL. Its pipeline also includes ALLO-316, ALLO-329 and ALLO-647.