Senior Executives

Experience: Alex Karlsson-Parra, MD, PhD has over 20 years of experience within transplantation immunology. In addition to his position as Co-Founder and CSO at Immunicum, he also serves as Associate Professor in Clinical Immunology at Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, with special expertise in transplantation immunology and cancer immunotherapy and is former chairman of the Swedish Expert Group for Clinical immunology. Dr. Karlsson-Parra was awarded the Athena Prize, the Swedish healthcare´s most prestigious award for clinical research, in 2014. Prior to his current positions, he served as Associate Professor and Senior Physician at the Department of Clinical Immunology at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden and Uppsala University Hospital, Sweden.

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Peter Hein has extensive experience from leading positions in the life science industry. He served as CFO at Q-Med, Biolipox (Orexo) and Vice President and CFO at BioArctic AB. He has also held the position of CFO and CEO at Granngården. Mr. Hein also brings experience in management and finance from companies including Ericsson and Swedish Match.

Experience: Sijme Zeilemaker joins Immunicum having most recently served as Director Business Development at InteRNA Technologies where he supported the preclinical oncology company in connecting with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, licensing technologies and exploring grant opportunities. Sijme also served as Head of Business for 2-BBB Medicines and Business Development Manager for to-BBB technologies where he provided partnering support and attracted funding.

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Peter has held a number of global development positions in the pharmaceutical industry including Senior Medical Scientist Haemat/Oncology Late Phase Development at Amgen, Medical Director Early Clinical Development at GSK Bio (Cancer Immunotherapeutics), Global Oncology Lead at Glenmark Pharma (IO assets), Chief Medical Officer at Immunicum AB and Vice-President Global Clinical Development at AgenTus Therapeutics (adoptive cell therapy). He is a board-certified medical doctor in Gastroenterology, qualified in Digestive Oncology and has a PhD in Medical Sciences from Leuven University, Belgium. He completed a post-doc at McGill University Health Center, Canada, and was on staff as Clinical Head Digestive Oncology at the University Hospital Antwerp before joining the pharmaceutical industry.

Experience: Sharon Longhurst has over 15 years in leading CMC efforts in small and medium sized organization. Sharon Longhurst joins Immunicum from her previous position as Senior CMC Manager at Akari Therapeutics, where she was responsible for all aspects of CMC, including clinical supply and distribution. Prior to that, Sharon spent 5 years as Principal Consultant of CMC at Parexel Consulting. From 2005–2011, she was a Pharmaceutical Assessor at MHRA in London in the biologics/biotechnology unit and provided national and EU scientific advice for Advance Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs) for cell and gene therapy.

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Experience: Margareth Jorvid has over 30 years’ experience in Regulatory Affairs for pharmaceuticals and has worked at the Medical Products Agency (MPA), as well as in large and small pharmaceutical companies such as Roussel Nordiska, Hoechst Marion Roussel (Stockholm and Paris, France) and Neopharma. Since 2006, consultant in regulatory affairs and quality assurance for pharmaceuticals and medical devices, as CEO of Methra Uppsala AB, LSM group. She is a Fellow and Honorary Life Member of TOPRA (The Organisation for Professionals in Regulatory Affairs), board member and TOPRA President 2005-2006.

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