BERGEN, Norway--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BerGenBio, an emerging oncology biopharma, today announced the appointment of Heidi Pavliska to its Board of Directors. Pavliska was one of the original group of scientists in the start-up of Galapogos NV. She was instrumental in the development of their target discovery platform and was later responsible for its commercialization across Europe. More recently Mrs Pavliska was Director of Business Development with AMRI. Following a recent successful fundraising led by a syndicate of Norwegian investors, this appointment represents a further strengthening of the company as it gears up to commercialize its proprietary novel EMT (epithelial -mesenchymal cancer targets, including lead candidate AXL inhibitor BGB324, through strategic alliances.
