Omeros Corporation announced that Eckhard Leifke, M.D. has been named Omeros’ Chief Medical Officer and Vice President of Clinical Development. In this role, Dr. Leifke will oversee clinical science & operations, medical affairs and pharmacovigilance. He assumes these corporate responsibilities from J. Steven Whitaker, M.D., J.D., Vice President of Clinical Development, who will now focus primarily on driving the clinical aspects of Omeros’ MASP-2 antibody – OMS721 – toward U.S. and international regulatory approvals in hematopoietic stem cell transplant-associated thrombotic microangiopathy (HSCT-TMA). Dr. Leifke brings to Omeros more than 20 years of drug development experience, having built and headed global teams at pharmaceutical companies including Bayer, Takeda and, most recently, Sanofi where he was Global Project Head/Vice President of Early Project & External Opportunities - Cardiovascular and Metabolism and Global Head/Vice President of Late-Stage Development Diabetes.