Xencor Appoints Celia Eckert as Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
September 21, 2019 at 03:57 am EDT
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Xencor reported the appointment of Celia Eckert as vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary. Eckert brings more than 20 years of experience as a corporate attorney in both law firm and in-house roles. At Xencor she will be responsible for all legal matters, including transactions, corporate governance and employment law, as well as overseeing the Company's intellectual property portfolio. Eckert joins Xencor from Synthetic Genomics, Inc., where she served as vice president, corporate legal. In this role she negotiated licensing and financial transactions and supported other corporate legal matters. Prior to Synthetic Genomics, Eckert served as associate general counsel at Sequenom, Inc., and as senior director, legal affairs at Prometheus Laboratories, Inc.
Xencor, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing engineered antibodies for the treatment of cancer and other serious diseases. More than 20 candidates engineered with its XmAb technology are in clinical development, and three XmAb medicines are marketed by partners. Its XmAb engineering technology enables small changes to a protein structure that result in new mechanisms of therapeutic action. Its wholly owned development candidates include Vudalimab, XmAb819, XmAb808, and XmAb541. Candidates co-developed with partners include Plamotamab. Candidates advanced by partners include Xaluritamig (AMG 509), ASP2138, JNJ-9401, JNJ-1493, and Novartis XmAb undisclosed antibody candidate. Its cytokine drug candidates in clinical development consist of fbalropendekin alfa (XmAb306/RG6323), XmAb564, and XmAb662. Its other clinical-stage drug candidates consist of Obexelimab, AIMab7195 (XmAb7195), and Xpro1595. Vudalimab is a bispecific antibody that targets PD-1 and CTLA-4.