Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. -
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Published on: 3/15/2004
Last Visited: 2/11/2005
Progenics Pharmaceuticals also announced the appointment of Lynn M. Bodarky to Vice President, Business Development and Licensing, a newly created position, and the promotion of Nitya G. Ray, Ph.D. to Vice President, Manufacturing.
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In his new position, Dr. Ray will assume expanded responsibility in managing manufacturing of the Company's product candidates for clinical trials and future commercialization.
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Nitya joined Progenics in February 2001 as the Company's Senior Director of Manufacturing with 15 years of prior management experience in R&D and manufacturing of biopharmaceuticals, most recently as the Director of Bioprocess Development at Ortec International, Inc.Previously he was a Research Leader in Biopharmaceuticals and Research Investigator in Bioprocess Development at Hoffmann-La Roche.Dr. Ray received his Ph.D. in Biochemical Engineering and an M.S. in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering from Rutgers University, and his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Jadavpur University in India.Since joining Progenics, Dr. Ray has significantly expanded our in-house manufacturing capabilities for biologics as well as overseeing third-party manufacture of MNTX and other small molecules.In this new position, Dr. Ray will have increased responsibilities for all manufacturing including overseeing the build-out of our new biologic manufacturing facility.
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The promotion of Dr. Ray to the position of Vice President recognizes the significant contributions he has made developing our manufacturing capabilities for supplying investigational drugs for our clinical trial programs.I look forward to working with Lynn and Nitya in their roles as senior executives within the Company."