CAMBRIDGE, MA, ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands and Shanghai, China, June 19, 2019 – Harbour BioMed (“HBM”) announced today the appointment of Kenneth M. Murphy, MD, PhD, to the company’s scientific advisory board. Dr. Murphy, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, is the Eugene Opie First Centennial Professor of Pathology and Immunology at Washington University.

 “Dr. Murphy is a distinguished immunologist with more than 30 years of expertise and experience in the field of immunology.” said Dr. Jingsong Wang, HBM’s Founder, Chairman and CEO. “He brings to HBM great insight into basic mechanisms of immune cell lineage that underlie the immune response. We look forward to many contributions in guiding our programs aimed at developing next generation therapeutics for cancer and immunological diseases.” 

Dr. Murphy is widely recognized for his research into the mechanisms of immune cell lineage differentiation and for determining the plasticity of these processes. His laboratory has discovered multiple cytokines and transcription factors that regulate differentiation of T cells, dendritic cells and macrophages. He is an author on 250 publications and delivered more than 145 invited lectureships. He serves in editorial capacities at several publications, including Immunity, International Immunology, and the European Journal of Immunology, and he is the lead author of Janeway’s Immunobiology.  He received numerous awards, such as William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology.

Dr. Murphy has spent his career at Washington University. He joined the university faculty in 1989 after completing a post-doctoral fellowship and pathology residency at the school. Dr. Murphy holds a combined M.D./Ph.D. degree from Johns Hopkins University.

About Harbour BioMed

 
Harbour BioMed (HKEX: 02142) is a global biopharmaceutical company committed to the discovery, development and commercialization of novel antibody therapeutics focusing on oncology and immunology. The Company is building its robust portfolio and differentiated pipeline through internal R&D capability, collaborations with co-discovery and co-development partners and select acquisitions.

 
The Company’s proprietary antibody technology platforms Harbour Mice^® generate fully human monoclonal antibodies in two heavy and two light chain (H2L2) format, as well as heavy chain only (HCAb) format. Building upon the HCAb antibodies, the HCAb-based immune cell engagers (HBICE^®) are capable of delivering tumor killing effects unachievable by traditional combination therapies. Integrating Harbour Mice^® with single B cell cloning platform, our antibody discovery engine is highly unique and efficient for development of next generation therapeutic antibodies. 

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