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Cambridge, MA-based X4-Pharmaceuticals Appointed JR Evans as Director, Talent Acquisition
About the Company
X4 Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: XFOR) is developing novel therapeutics designed to improve immune cell trafficking to treat rare diseases, including primary immunodeficiencies and certain cancers. The company`s oral small molecule drug candidates antagonize the CXCR4 pathway, which plays a central role in immune surveillance. X4`s most advanced product candidate, mavorixafor (X4P-001), is in a global Phase 3 pivotal trial in patients with WHIM syndrome, a rare, inherited, primary immunodeficiency disease, and is currently also under investigation in combination with axitinib in the Phase 2a portion of an open-label Phase 1/2 clinical trial in clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC). X4 is also planning to commence clinical trials of mavorixafor in Severe Congenital Neutropenia (SCN) and Waldenström`s macroglobulinemia (WM) in 2019. The company was founded and is led by a team with extensive biopharmaceutical product development and commercialization expertise and is committed to advancing the development of innovative medicines on behalf of patients with limited treatment options. X4 is a global company that is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts with research offices based in Vienna, Austria.
About the Person
JR Evans is Senior Director, Human Resources at Expansion Therapeutics. Previously, JR held various senior HR leadership roles in the industry.
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