INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev., Aug. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PDL BioPharma, Inc. (PDL) today announced the appointment of Harold E. ("Barry") Selick, Ph.D., to the Company's Board of Directors.
Dr. Selick has served as chief executive officer of Threshold Pharmaceuticals since June 2002. From January 1999 to April 2002, he was chief executive officer of biotechnology company Camitro Corporation. From 1992 to 1999, he worked at Affymax Research Institute, the drug discovery technology development center for Glaxo Wellcome plc, most recently as vice president of Research. Prior to joining Affymax, he held scientific positions at Protein Design Labs, Inc. and Anergen, Inc. As a staff scientist at Protein Design Labs, he was a co-inventor of the technology underlying the creation of fully humanized antibody therapeutics and applied this technology to PDL's first product, Zenapax (R), which was developed and commercialized by Roche for the prevention of kidney transplant rejection. Dr. Selick received his B.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and was a Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Cancer Fund Fellow and an American Cancer Society Senior Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco.
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