Press release
Geron Corporation Announces Chief Commercial Officer to Depart at End of August 2024
FOSTER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Geron Corporation (Nasdaq: GERN), a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company aiming to change lives by changing the
About this update from Geron Corporation
[{"type":"text","content":" FOSTER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nGeron Corporation (Nasdaq: GERN), a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company aiming to change lives by changing the course of blood cancer, today announced that Anil Kapur, Executive Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Chief Commercial Officer, will depart the Company on August 31, 2024, to pursue other interests. A search for a new Chief Commercial Officer is already underway, and in the interim, Andrew Grethlein, Ph.D., Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, will serve as leader of the commercial organization. Geron Board of Directors member Dawn Carter Bir, who has led numerous successful new product launches, including as Chief Commercial Officer of Reata Pharmaceuticals and as Vice President, Sales at Pharmacyclics, will support Dr. Grethlein in this interim role with additional oversight of the commercial business.\n\n\n“We are encouraged by the uptake of RYTELO™ we are seeing in the first month of launch and by the positive feedback from customers and are confident that our seasoned commercial leadership team will continue to drive this momentum going forward,” said John A. Scarlett, M.D., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “We thank Anil for his significant contributions to our business over the past five years, particularly his strategic vision to define the potential market for RYTELO, his articulation of its value proposition and his foundational leadership in building a strong commercial organization, which I believe has positioned Geron for long-term success. We wish him the best in his future endeavors.”\n\n\n“It has been an honor to serve Geron and our mission to change lives by changing the course of blood cancer,” said Anil Kapur. “I am deeply grateful to have had the opportunity to build an outstanding commercial team at Geron and look forward to the future success of the company.”\n\n\nAbout Geron\n\n\nGeron is a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company aiming to change lives by changing the course of blood cancer. Our first-in-class telomerase inhibitor RYTELO™ (imetelstat) is FDA-approved for the treatment of adult patients with lower-risk MDS with transfusion dependent anemia. We are also conducting a pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial of imetelstat in JAK-inhibitor relapsed/refractory myelofibrosis (R/R MF), as well as studies in other hematologic ...