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MacroGenics Announces Appointment of Dr. Margaret Liu and Meenu Chhabra Karson to Board of Directors
ROCKVILLE, MD, Jan. 04, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MacroGenics, Inc. (NASDAQ: MGNX), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing
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[{"type":"text","content":"ROCKVILLE, MD, Jan. 04, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MacroGenics, Inc. (NASDAQ: MGNX), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing innovative antibody-based therapeutics for the treatment of cancer, today announced the appointment of Dr. Margaret A. Liu and Meenu Chhabra Karson to its Board of Directors, effective January 3, 2023. Dr. Liu will serve as a member of MacroGenics’ Science and Technology Committee and Ms. Karson will serve as a member of the Company’s Audit Committee. Following the appointment of Dr. Liu and Ms. Karson, MacroGenics’ Board will comprise ten directors, nine of whom are independent. “We are delighted to have both Margaret and Meenu join MacroGenics’ Board of Directors. Their extensive executive, scientific, strategic and operational experiences make them both strong additions to our Board of Directors,” stated Scott Koenig, M.D., Ph.D., MacroGenics' President and Chief Executive Officer. “We look forward to leveraging Margaret’s and Meenu’s expertise as we continue our mission to develop breakthrough biologics that represent life-changing medicines for cancer patients.” Margaret A. Liu, M.D., D.Sc.hc, M.D.hc is a world-renowned expert in the fields of gene therapy, vaccines and immunotherapy and has been the CEO of PAX Therapeutics since 2020. She is an Adjunct Full Professor at the University of California, San Francisco and Hedersdoktor with scientific affiliation in the Department of Medicine at the Karolinska Institutet. Dr. Liu widely consults for companies and NGOs such as WHO through her activities as Principal of ProTherImmune and previously held positions of increasing responsibility at Merck & Co. and Chiron Corporation. She is a Board Member of the International Society for Vaccines (and President Emerita) as well as of Ipsen, where she chairs the Ethics and Governance Committee and is a member of the Innovation and Development Committee. She served on the boards of Transgene, Sangamo Biosciences, Adjuvance Technologies and the International Vaccine Institute (established by the United Nations), and was Senior Advisor in Vaccinology at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Liu obtained an M.D. from Harvard Medical School and a B.A. in Chemistry from Colorado College. She completed an Internship and Residency in Internal Medicine and a Fellowship in Endocrinology, all ...