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Fate Therapeutics Appoints Edward Dulac as Chief Financial Officer
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 19, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fate Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: FATE), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development
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[{"type":"text","content":" SAN DIEGO, Aug. 19, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fate Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: FATE), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of programmed cellular immunotherapies for cancer and immune disorders, today announced that Edward Dulac has been appointed Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Dulac comes to the Company from Celgene Corporation, where he most recently served as Vice President, Business Development & Strategy, and brings an extensive array of biopharmaceutical experience having served for over 20 years in positions in finance, business development, and product portfolio strategy.\n “Ed is an outstanding addition to our leadership team, bringing to Fate Therapeutics great strategic and operational insight into the building and managing of an industry-leading hematology franchise,” said Scott Wolchko, President and Chief Executive Officer of Fate Therapeutics. “His integrated perspective across the strategic, clinical, and commercial elements of cell-based cancer immunotherapy is of great value as we clinically advance our off-the-shelf, iPSC-derived cell product candidates in hematologic malignancies and leverage our proprietary iPSC product platform through strategic partnerships.” “Fate Therapeutics is at the forefront of off-the-shelf, cell-based cancer immunotherapy, and I can’t imagine a more exciting time to join as the Company advances its first-of-kind product candidates through early clinical development,” said Mr. Dulac. “The Company’s proprietary iPSC product platform is capable of creating multiplexed engineered cell therapies with the potential to successfully treat serious cancers and other debilitating diseases, and I am eager to help bring these new therapies to patients.” In his most recent role of Vice President of Business Development & Strategy at Celgene, Mr. Dulac was responsible for business development opportunities in the therapeutic areas of hematology and oncology, inflammation and immunology, and neuroscience. During his tenure at Celgene, he also held various positions of increasing responsibility in the company’s hematology and oncology franchise, including portfolio development strategy and commercial planning. Prior to Celgene, Mr. Dulac worked as a biopharmaceutical equity research analyst at Barclays Capital and Lehman Brothers and in corporate finance at Pfizer. ...