SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Jennerex, Inc. (San Francisco, CA and Ottawa, Ontario), a clinical stage cancer biotherapeutics company, today announced the appointment of Hoyoung Huh, M.D., Ph.D. to its board of directors. Dr. Huh is currently chairman of BiPar Sciences, Inc., an independent wholly-owned subsidiary of sanofi-aventis, and chairman of Epizyme, Inc., representing two leading novel cancer therapeutics companies.
"Hoyoung brings a tremendous amount of highly relevant industry experience and wisdom to our board. His capabilities and industry relationships will enable him to contribute extensively to our clinical and business development efforts," said David H. Kirn, M.D., president and chief executive officer of Jennerex. "With exciting clinical results from JX-594 in liver cancer, we expect to launch a Phase 3 trial for this product in 2010. As we transform Jennerex into a late stage company, we are pleased to further bolster our leadership team with the addition of Dr. Huh who, along with the rest of our team, will be instrumental in taking Jennerex toward commercialization."
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