Dr. Larrieux brings significant experience managing analytical development quality control of immunotherapies to treat cancer and small molecule therapies at pharmaceutical and biotechnology organizations
NEW YORK, Dec. 19, 2016 -- Actinium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE MKT:ATNM) (“Actinium” or “the Company”), a biopharmaceutical company developing innovative targeted therapies for cancers lacking effective treatment options, announced today that Jeannine Larrieux, Ph.D. has been appointed Director of Analytical Development. Dr. Larrieux will be responsible for analytical assay development, conducting biologics license application (BLA) and investigational new drug (IND) enabling studies, authoring CMC analytical sections for BLA and IND filings and supporting both internal and external quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) efforts.
“Dr. Larrieux is an accomplished analytical professional who is bringing over 20 years of highly relevant industry experience in matters related to regulatory submissions, project management and QA/QC to Actinium,” said Sandesh Seth, Actinium’s Executive Chairman. “Dr. Larrieux is yet another invaluable addition to the Actinium team that will contribute enormously to the development of our clinical programs Iomab-B and Actimab-A as well as future clinical programs we hope to unveil in the near future.”
Dr. Larrieux joins Actinium following analytical consulting assignments in the U.S. and Europe. Prior to this, she was Head of AS&T at Novartis where she focused on cell therapy products aimed to treat acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Prior to Novartis, Dr. Larrieux was Laboratory Manager at Dendreon Corporation where she supported Phase 3 and Phase 4 clinical studies. In addition, Dr. Larrieux has worked at Pfizer, Purdue Pharma and Wyeth in analytical roles.
Dr. Larrieux earned her Ph.D. in Material Chemistry from Polytechnic Institute of NYU, an M.S. degree in Chemistry from Polytechnic University and a BS.c. degree in Chemistry from State University of HAITI (PAP). In addition, she is a member of the Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society (RAPS) and a member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ).
