Puma Biotechnology, Inc. Appoints Douglas Hunt as Senior Vice President of Regulatory Affairs
January 03, 2018 at 06:08 am EST
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On January 2, 2018, Douglas Hunt joined Puma Biotechnology, Inc. as its Senior Vice President of Regulatory Affairs. Mr. Hunt has over 25 years of regulatory affairs experience and has been a regulatory affairs consultant to the Company since February 2017. Mr. Hunt previously served as Vice President Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance at ArmaGen, Inc. from March 2015 until December 2017 and Vice President, Global Regulatory Affairs (Bioscience) at Baxter Healthcare, Inc. from March 2008 until March 2015 where he was responsible for global regulatory affairs for several franchises including oncology. Prior to that, Mr. Hunt worked for Amgen Inc. from June 2000 to March 2008 in various positions, including as Executive Director, Therapeutic Area Head (Oncology) and Executive Director, Therapeutic Area Head (Bone/Oncology), Global Regulatory Affairs and Safety.
Puma Biotechnology, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company. The Company is focused on the development and commercialization of products to enhance cancer care. The Company's lead product is NERLYNX, an oral version of neratinib, for the treatment of HER2-positive breast cancer. Neratinib is a potent irreversible tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) that blocks signal transduction through the epidermal growth factor receptors, HER1, HER2 and HER4 It also engaged in the development and commercialization of, alisertib. Alisertib is a selective, small molecule inhibitor of aurora kinase A that is designed to disrupt mitosis leading to apoptosis of rapidly proliferating tumor cells that are dependent on aurora kinase A. Its neratinib has clinical application in the treatment of several other cancers as well, including other tumor types that over-express or have a mutation in HER2 or epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), such as breast cancer, cervical cancer, lung cancer, or other solid tumors.