BEIGENE,LTD. (NASDAQ:BGNE) Files An 8-K Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
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Effective January 23, 2019, BeiGene, Ltd. (the “Company”) appointed Eric Hedrick, M.D. as the Interim Chief Medical Officer, Immuno-Oncology, of the Company. Dr. Hedrick succeeds Amy Peterson, M.D., who has served as a member of our executive team since joining the Company in 2016. The Company is also reorganizing its clinical operations leadership to further strengthen its capabilities and efficiency in global clinical development. With Dr. Hedrick’s appointment, Dr. Peterson will no longer serve as an executive officer of the Company and will be leaving the Company after a transition period. We would like to thank Dr. Peterson for her service to the Company.
Eric Hedrick, M.D. has served in different roles at the Company since June 2015 and currently holds the position of Chief Advisor. He was previously Chief Medical Officer at Epizyme, Vice President of Oncology Development and Interim Chief Medical Officer at Pharmacyclics, and Group Medical Director at Genentech. Prior to joining the industry, Dr. Hedrick was an Attending Physician on the Hematology Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He has an M.D. from the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
About BEIGENE,LTD. (NASDAQ:BGNE)
BeiGene, Ltd. is a biopharmaceutical company. The Company is engaged in the discovery and development of molecularly targeted and immuno-oncology drugs for the treatment of cancer. It is developing its product candidate, BGB-3111, a potent and selective small molecule Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor, as a monotherapy and in combination with other therapies for the treatment of a range of lymphomas. It is developing its product candidate, BGB-A317, a humanized monoclonal antibody against the immune checkpoint receptor programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1), as a monotherapy and as a combination agent for various solid-organ and blood-borne cancers. It is developing BGB-290, a molecularly targeted, orally available, potent and selective inhibitor of poly ADP ribose polymerase 1 (PARP1) and PARP2, as a monotherapy and in combination with other therapies for the treatment of homologous recombination deficient cancers. It is also developing BGB-283 for the treatment of cancers.
