IBio, Inc. Appoints William D. Clark to Its Board of Directors
August 26, 2021 at 07:00 am EDT
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iBio, Inc. announced the appointment of William D. (Chip) Clark to its Board of Directors, effective immediately. Mr. Clark has more than 30 years of biotechnology and pharmaceutical experience, with a focus on business development, commercialization, strategic planning, and general management. Since 2011, he has served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Nasdaq-listed biopharmaceutical company, Genocea Biosciences, Inc. (“Genocea”). In that role, among other accomplishments, he executed Genocea’s successful strategic pivot from infectious disease to immuno-oncology. Prior to joining Genocea, Mr. Clark was Chief Business Officer at Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. (“Vanda”), a company he co-founded in 2004. There, he played central roles in completing the company’s 2006 Nasdaq initial public offering and its 2009 out-licensing deal with Novartis Pharma AG, from which Vanda received an upfront payment of $200 million, plus contingent additional future milestone payments totaling up to $265 million. Previously, he was a Principal at Care Capital, LLC, a venture capital firm investing in biopharmaceutical companies. Earlier in his career, he spent 10 years at SmithKline Beecham Corporation (now part of GlaxoSmithKline plc) in a variety of business development roles. Mr. Clark holds an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA from Harvard University.
iBio, Inc. is a preclinical stage biotechnology company that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) for the development of precision antibodies. The Company develops biopharmaceuticals using computational biology and 3D-modeling of subdominant and conformational epitopes, prospectively enabling the discovery of new antibody treatments for hard-to-target cancers and other diseases. Its StableHu technology is an AI-based tool designed to predict a library of antibodies with fully human Complementarity-Determining Region (CDR) variants based on an input antibody. It is in the process of building its preclinical pipeline, which focuses primarily on immuno-oncology. Its pipeline includes IBIO-101, Endostatin E4, TROP-2 x CD3, MUC16, EGFRvIII, and CCR8. IBIO-101 is an anti-CD25 monoclonal antibody (mAb) that has demonstrated in preclinical models of disease the ability to bind and deplete immunosuppressive regulatory T (Treg) cells to inhibit the growth of solid tumors.
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