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Acrivon Therapeutics Appoints Jean-Marie Cuillerot, M.D., as Chief Medical Officer
WATERTOWN, Mass., Jan. 03, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Acrivon Therapeutics, Inc. (“Acrivon” or “Acrivon Therapeutics”) (Nasdaq: ACRV), a clinical stage
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[{"type":"text","content":"WATERTOWN, Mass., Jan. 03, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Acrivon Therapeutics, Inc. (“Acrivon” or “Acrivon Therapeutics”) (Nasdaq: ACRV), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing precision oncology medicines that it matches to patients whose tumors are predicted to be sensitive to each specific medicine by utilizing its proprietary proteomics-based patient responder identification platform, Acrivon Predictive Precision Proteomics or AP3, today announced the appointment of Jean-Marie Cuillerot, M.D., as chief medical officer. “Jean-Marie has over twenty years of successful experience in oncology drug development, and we are delighted to have him join Acrivon,” said Peter Blume-Jensen, M.D., Ph.D., chief executive officer, president, and founder of Acrivon Therapeutics. “During his impressive career, he has effectively executed on advancing drugs from early development through regulatory approval, at both pharma and biotech companies. Jean-Marie’s track record of successful global development of novel oncology therapeutics is well-suited to lead the advancement of our pipeline of pioneering drugs and support our continued discovery activities, enabled by our AP3 platform.” Dr. Cuillerot was previously the chief medical officer at Dragonfly Therapeutics where he established and led a clinical team advancing multiple potential first-in-class assets. Prior to Dragonfly, Dr. Cuillerot was the chief medical officer of Agenus, where he led development activities for five investigational therapies. At EMD Serono, an affiliate of Merck Serono, Dr. Cuillerot served as the global head of clinical development in immuno-oncology (IO) and as the vice president of clinical immunotherapy/IO. He oversaw the company's IO portfolio which included two checkpoint inhibitors and two immuno-cytokines. Notably, Dr. Cuillerot advanced avelumab, the first drug approved to treat Merkel cell carcinoma and second-line bladder cancer, from pre-IND through global submissions in record time, an achievement that earned him the Merck CEO Award. From 2007 to 2012, he was at Bristol-Myers Squibb, where he served as the medical lead for the life cycle management of ipilimumab, an anti-CTLA-4 antibody and the world's first immune checkpoint therapy for cancer. Here he designed and led Phase 2 and Phase 3 studies across multiple indications and supported regul...