Joe is a qualified physician, board certified in medical oncology, haematology, and internal medicine. He is a highly experienced pharmaceutical industry executive with over 25 years of proven expertise in people and portfolio management, planning, designing, and executing Phase I to IV clinical trials and building and managing clinical and medical affairs teams and strategies.
He has successfully designed and implemented clinical development, medical affairs, and life cycle management plans for pharmaceutical products including cytotoxic agents, monoclonal antibodies, immuno-oncology agents, antibody-drug conjugates, and CAR-T Cell therapies.
His previous experience includes senior positions in clinical development and medical affairs at Bristol Myers Squibb, Merck & Co. and Hoffman-La Roche. Whilst at Merck, Joe led the global Keytruda® (pembrolizumab, MK-3475) first-in-human strategy, including oversight of the clinical, regulatory and manufacturing planning and execution and development of the PD-L1 biomarker strategy on tissue biopsy, which led to a first-in-class anti-PD-1 BLA filing and approval in the US.
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Valuable knowledge and experience in oncology drug development and the use of biomarkers in the clinical trials process and as companion diagnostics.