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Bioasis Technologies Announces the Appointment of Dr. May Orfali to the Position of Consultant Chief Medical Officer
Bioasis Technologies Announces the Appointment of Dr. May Orfali to the Position of Consultant Chief Medical Officer.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nBioasis Technologies Inc. (OTCQB:BIOAF; TSX.V:BTI), (the “Company” or “Bioasis”), a biopharmaceutical company developing its proprietary xB3™ platform technology for the delivery of therapeutics across the blood-brain barrier (“BBB”) and the treatment of central nervous system (“CNS”) disorders in areas of high unmet medical need, including brain cancers and neurodegenerative diseases, today announced today the appointment of Dr. May Orfali to the position of Consultant Chief Medical Officer, effective immediately. In this position, Dr. Orfali replaces Dr. Jose Iglesias, who has recently accepted a full-time position at another company. We thank Dr. Iglesias for his contributions to Bioasis to date.\n\n\nDr. May Orfali has a deep and extensive background in drug and clinical development programs that spans two decades in multiple therapeutic areas, with a focus on rare diseases, oncology, hematology, infectious disease and women’s health. Her most recent role was President at Oncology and Rare disease Consulting, LLC, she was the Chief Medical Officer at CANbridge Life Sciences where she led the clinical development and medical affairs group, focused on progressing phase 1 and phase II oncology assets in glioblastoma multiforme and esophageal cancer, filing NDA for neratinib in China in adjuvant and metastatic breast cancer therapy. Dr. Orfali has also spent several years at Pfizer as Global Medical Lead and Executive Director, Global Product Development across multiple rare disease assets in hematology, sickle cell disease, hemophilia, endocrinology, gene therapy and TTR-amyloidosis. Prior to her time at Pfizer, Dr. Orfali held several clinical leadership positions, at Wyeth, Artisan Pharma, Aeris Therapeutics, Cubist Pharmaceuticals and Boston Scientific Corporation.\n\n\nDr. Orfali holds a medical degree from the University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, and a Pharmaceutical Master of Business Administration from Cambridge University, Cambridge, England. She was a practicing physician, specialized in CNS Oncology Clinical Research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, in Boston, MA and completed her Fellowship in Pediatric Oncology/Hematology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA.\n\n\n“We are very pleased that Dr. Orfali has join...