Harbour BioMed has announced the appointment of Dr Humphrey Gardner as Chief Medical Officer (CMO). Dr Gardner will be responsible for leading the global product development of the Company, including pipeline strategy, clinical development plan and operations, and product registration. 

Dr Gardner has more than 30 years industry experience, achievement and leadership in clinical development and translational medicine, including over 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry and over 10 years of experience in academia. Before joining the Company, he served as the chief medical officer at Silicon Therapeutics and the chief of medical oncology at Evelo Biosciences. He also served critical leadership roles at Novartis, AstraZeneca and Biogen.

With this appointment, the Company will further strengthen its global clinical development capability and continue to advance the global development of its clinical products, including next-generation anti-CTLA-4 antibody HBM4003 and B7H4x4-1BB bispecific antibody HBM7008, whilst enriching the pipeline strategy of the global development of its immune-oncology pipeline.

Dr Gardner is an expert in oncology, rheumatology, and infectious disease. He published approximately one hundred papers in international academic journals, and has been an active influential speaker at international conferences. He is also a fellow of the College of American Pathologists, and a member of American Society of Clinical Oncology, and has previously been a member of a variety of professional organizations including the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases and the American Association for Clinical Chemistry.