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Iovance Biotherapeutics Appoints Dan Kirby as Chief Commercial Officer
SAN CARLOS, Calif., Feb. 10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: IOVA), a commercial biotechnology company focused on innovating,
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[{"type":"text","content":"SAN CARLOS, Calif., Feb. 10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: IOVA), a commercial biotechnology company focused on innovating, developing, and delivering novel polyclonal tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) therapies for patients with cancer, today announced that Dan Kirby will join the Company’s executive leadership team in the newly created role of Chief Commercial Officer, effective today. “I would like to extend a warm welcome to Dan Kirby on behalf of the entire Iovance team,” stated Frederick Vogt, Ph.D., J.D., Interim President, Chief Executive Officer and board member of Iovance. “Dan has been instrumental in building and leading cell therapy commercial organizations since the earliest developments in the field. He is the perfect fit for Chief Commercial Officer as we grow the U.S. launch of Amtagvi and prepare to enter new markets around the world while also expanding our Proleukin sales.” Prior to joining Iovance, Mr. Kirby led global commercial strategy for an emerging cell therapy platform of products as Chief Commercial Officer of Orca Bio. From 2018 to 2020, he served as Chief Commercial Officer at Omeros Corporation, overseeing U.S. and EU launch readiness for narsoplimab, a lectin pathway inhibitor, for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation-associated thrombotic microangiopathy. Previously, he led market access, reimbursement and marketing efforts for CAR T products as Vice President and Head of US Cell and Gene at Celgene (now Bristol-Myers Squibb). He joined Celgene following the acquisition of Juno Therapeutics, where he was Vice President of Marketing and Market Access. Earlier in his career, Mr. Kirby was Head of Marketing for Medivation (now Pfizer) and held various commercial roles of increasing responsibility during a 14-year tenure at Amgen. His strengths also include market engagement, reimbursement landscape evaluation, value story creation, key opinion leader outreach, communications and advocacy. “I am pleased to join Iovance at such an exciting time as we catalyze and expand the commercial launch of Amtagvi and growth of Proleukin within the U.S. and beyond,” said Mr. Kirby. “As the global leader in TIL cell therapy, Iovance is strongly positioned to be the flagship cell therapy company for many thousands of patients with solid tumor cancers for decades to come.” Abo...