Mersana Therapeutics, Inc. Appoints Mohan Bala as SVP, Strategic Product Planning & Program Leadership
October 25, 2021 at 08:00 am
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Mersana Therapeutics, Inc. announced the appointment of Mohan Bala as SVP, Strategic Product Planning & Program Leadership, effective October 25, 2021. Dr. Bala will assume strategic product planning responsibilities from Brian DeSchuytner who has been named SVP and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. DeSchuytner will continue to lead finance, business development, corporate strategy and investor relations and remain Mersana?s principal financial officer. Mohan Bala, Ph.D., was most recently Chief Operating Officer at Constellation Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of novel therapeutics to address patients with cancers associated with abnormal gene expression. While at Constellation, Dr. Bala was responsible for overall asset strategy and program management. Prior to joining Constellation, Dr. Bala served as VP, Development Program Lead at TESARO, where he led cross-functional teams to advance two products to Phase 2 and one product to regulatory filing. He has been involved in multiple successful BLA and MAAs, including the filing of a companion diagnostic. Earlier in his career, Dr. Bala held senior leadership roles at Sanofi, GlaxoSmithKline and Centocor.
Mersana Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, which is focused on the development of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), which offer a clinically meaningful benefit for cancer patients with significant unmet needs. It has developed two proprietary and differentiated ADC platforms: Dolasynthen and Immunosynthen. Dolasynthen is its cytotoxic ADC platform that is designed to generate site-specific, homogeneous ADCs. Immunosynthen is its proprietary stimulator of interferon genes (STING)-agonist platform that is designed to generate systemically administered ADCs that locally activate STING signaling in both antigen-expressing tumor cells and in tumor-resident immune cells. The Company's pipeline also includes XMT-1660, a Dolasynthen ADC targeting B7-H4 in a Phase I clinical trial, and XMT-2056, an Immunosynthen ADC targeting a novel epitope of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2), in addition to other earlier-stage assets.
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