Protalix BioTherapeutics Announces Retirement of David Aviezer, President and Chief Executive Officer
June 13, 2014 at 08:00 am
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Protalix BioTherapeutics, Inc. announced that David Aviezer, Ph.D., has decided to retire after almost 12 years from his role as the company's President and Chief Executive Officer. He will retire this year upon the completion of a process to nominate his successor. In the meantime, Dr. Aviezer will continue serving as President and Chief Executive Officer and remains a member of the Board of Directors.
Protalix BioTherapeutics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company. The Company is focused on the development and commercialization of recombinant therapeutic proteins expressed through its proprietary plant cell-based expression system, ProCellEx. In addition, the Company is developing PEGylated uricase, or PRX-115, for the treatment of severe gout, Long Acting (LA) DNase I, or PRX-119, for the treatment of NETs-related diseases, and other technologies and preclinical assets. Its product, Elelyso is an enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) for the treatment of patients with Gaucher disease. Its ProCellEx platform is being used to manufacture both of its approved and marketed products as well as PRX-115 and PRX-119. PRX-115, a plant cell-expressed recombinant PEGylated Uricase (urate oxidase)- a chemically modified enzyme under development for the potential treatment of severe gout. PRX-119 is a plant cell-expressed PEGylated recombinant human DNase I product candidate.
PROTALIX BIOTHERAPEUTICS, INC. 
