Medigene AG announced that its Supervisory Board has appointed Dr. Thomas Taapken as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) as of 1 January 2017. As a member of Executive Management working at the Munich headquarters of Medigene, Dr. Taapken will assume the CFO responsibilities which were temporarily taken over by the company's Chief Operating Officer (COO). Additional administrational tasks taken over from the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) will also be of part his duties. Most recently, Dr. Taapken spent more than five years at Epigenomics AG, initially as CFO and subsequently, from October 2012, as its CEO/CFO. Before his time at Epigenomics, Dr. Taapken served as CFO at Biotie Therapies Corp. (now Acorda Therapeutics) and its predecessor companies for six years. His extensive international experience in the life sciences industry also includes over seven years as a venture capital investor at DVC Deutsche Venture Capital and San Francisco-based US venture capital firm Burrill & Company. Prior to that, he worked several years at Sanofi (originally Hoechst AG) in the United States and Germany, managing corporate venture capital activities, as well as in the areas of corporate & business development and research.