PRECIGEN INC (PGEN)
Sector: Health Care
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
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Sector: Health Care
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Director information for PGEN
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PGEN | President and Chief Executive Officer | 64 | ["President and Chief Executive Officer since January 2020","President of PGEN Therapeutics, Inc. from December 2017 to December 2022","Senior Vice President, Health Therapeutics","Head of Research and Development","co-founded and served as Chief Scientific Officer of Compass Therapeutics LLC","Senior Vice President of Immuno-Oncology at EMD Serono","led the Molecular Immunology Group at the US National Cancer Institute","doctorate degree in cell and molecular immunology"] | [] | 2026 |
Biography sourced from the proxy statement filing.
Dr. Sabzevari has served as a Board member since June 2020, as our President and Chief Executive Officer since January 2020, and as President of PGEN Therapeutics, Inc., our wholly owned subsidiary, from December 2017 until December 2022. From July 2017 to December 2017, Dr. Sabzevari served as our Senior Vice President, Health Therapeutics as well as Head of Research and Development. Dr. Sabzevari served as a board member of Kinnate Biopharma Inc. (Nasdaq: KNTE) from June 2021 until its acquisition by XOMA Corporation in April 2024. Prior to joining the Company, from 2015 to 2017, Dr. Sabzevari co-founded and served as Chief Scientific Officer of Compass Therapeutics LLC, a fully integrated drug discovery and development company focused on manipulating the immune system to treat human disease. From 2008 to 2014, Dr. Sabzevari served as Senior Vice President of Immuno-Oncology as well as Global Head of Immunotherapy, Oncology, Global Research and Early Development at EMD Serono (a subsidiary of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany). From 1998 to 2008, Dr. Sabzevari led the Molecular Immunology Group at the Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Biology at the US National Cancer Institute, where she was focused on design, development, and delivery of novel vaccines and immunotherapies for a range of human cancers. Dr. Sabzevari received her doctorate degree in cell and molecular immunology and completed her postdoctoral work at the department of immunology at the Scripps Research Institute, working on various immunotherapeutic modalities in the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. Dr. Sabzevari's contributions in the field of tumor immunology earned her the National Institutes of Health (NIH) merit award for major contribution to the field of cancer immunotherapy, and she has also received the Mass High Tech's Women to Watch Award, the PharmaVOICE 100 Award (2013 and 2022), PharmaVOICE 100 Red Jacket award (2023), and the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) Team Science Award for her work on the NCI Cancer Immunotherapy Program Team. Dr. Sabzevari has been recognized on the Forbes 50 over 50: The Visionary List, Maryland's Top 100 Women and PM360's Elite 100 Strategists. We believe Dr. Sabzevari brings to the Board expertise in research and development of immunotherapy-based therapeutics, experience translating novel treatments from preclinical stage into the clinic, and extensive leadership experience and knowledge of the industry.