Mersana Therapeutics Announces Appointment of Alejandra Carvajal as Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer
April 26, 2021 at 08:00 am EDT
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Mersana Therapeutics, Inc. announced the appointment of Alejandra Carvajal as Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer. Ms. Carvajal was most recently the Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel & Secretary at Momenta Pharmaceuticals, where she led the company’s legal operations through both business restructuring and the successful acquisition by Johnson & Johnson for $6.5 billion. She also served as a key strategic legal partner in the Company’s financing, business development and contractual decision-making efforts. Prior to joining Momenta, Ms. Carvajal served as the Vice President, General Counsel at Cerulean Pharma. Previously, Ms. Carvajal worked at Millennium Pharmaceuticals in several positions of increasing seniority, where she was the legal business partner to Millennium’s R&D, business development, manufacturing and commercial functions.
Mersana Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, which is focused on the development of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), which offer a clinically meaningful benefit for cancer patients with significant unmet needs. It has developed two proprietary and differentiated ADC platforms: Dolasynthen and Immunosynthen. Dolasynthen is its cytotoxic ADC platform that is designed to generate site-specific, homogeneous ADCs. Immunosynthen is its proprietary stimulator of interferon genes (STING)-agonist platform that is designed to generate systemically administered ADCs that locally activate STING signaling in both antigen-expressing tumor cells and in tumor-resident immune cells. The Company's pipeline also includes XMT-1660, a Dolasynthen ADC targeting B7-H4 in a Phase I clinical trial, and XMT-2056, an Immunosynthen ADC targeting a novel epitope of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2), in addition to other earlier-stage assets.
MERSANA THERAPEUTICS, INC. 
