Dr. Robert Gundel joins Amorfix as Vice President, Research & Development

11-Jan-2010 - Canada

Amorfix Life Sciences announced that Robert Gundel, Ph.D., M.B.A., has been appointed the company's Vice President, Research & Development.

Dr. Gundel has 25 years of drug development experience with both major pharmaceutical and smaller biotechnology companies focusing on therapeutic monoclonal antibodies and vaccines. Before joining Amorfix, Dr. Gundel was the Chief Scientific Officer at Heat Biologics, a clinical stage company developing novel vaccine and monoclonal antibody technologies for the treatment of autoimmune diseases and cancers. Prior to Heat Biologics, Dr. Gundel was the Vice President and Head of Research at Elusys Therapeutics Inc. where he directed all research and development programs in the areas of vaccines, anti-infectives and the anti-anthrax toxin monoclonal antibody, Anthem(TM), being developed in collaboration with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Department of Homeland Security for stockpiling as part of the U.S. biodefense program against potential terrorist attacks. Prior to that, Dr. Gundel was the Chief Scientific Officer at Arius Research, Inc. which was recently purchased by Roche. Earlier in his career, Dr. Gundel served as Vice President, Pharmacology and Preclinical Research at Chiron Corporation, Director of Pharmacology at Bayer Corporation, and Vice President, Preclinical Research and Scientific Corporate Development at XOMA (US), LLC. He began his career in pharmaceutical R&D at Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

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