Checkmate Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced the appointment of Kleem Chaudhary, PhD, as Chief Business Officer. Dr. Chaudhary has over 16 years of experience within the biotech and large pharmaceutical industry with broad experience in strategic business development and drug discovery. He has held roles of increasing responsibility across multiple organizations including, most recently as Head of Business Development & Licensing at Biogen and previously as a transaction leader in Business Development at Takeda. He began his business development career at Novartis, where he was a team leader and led deals across multiple therapeutic areas. Prior to Novartis, he was the head of a medicinal chemistry lab at Gilead Sciences. Dr. Chaudhary holds a PhD in chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a BSc in chemistry from the University of Winnipeg.