Bellicum Pharmaceuticals Appoints Atabak Mokari as Chief Financial Officer
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“We are pleased to welcome Atabak to Bellicum’s executive team,” said Bellicum’s President & CEO Rick Fair. “Atabak brings a deep understanding of capital markets and the life sciences industry, and has a proven track record of successful financial leadership. We look forward to his many contributions as we approach 2019 with several important milestones, including the MAA filing of our lead product rivo-cel in the E.U. and the expansion of clinical studies with our lead GoCAR-T candidate, BPX-601.”
Mr. Mokari joins Bellicum from
Mr. Mokari earned his MBA from
Inducement Awards
The Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors has approved inducement awards to Atabak Mokari, which will be granted effective on his start date. The inducement awards consist of a stock option to purchase up to 300,000 shares of the Company's common stock priced at the closing price of the Common Stock on the grant date of
About Bellicum Pharmaceuticals
Bellicum is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company striving to deliver cures through controllable cell therapies. The Company’s next-generation product candidates are differentiated by powerful cell signaling technologies designed to produce more effective CAR-T, TCR and allogeneic T cell therapies. Its lead product candidate, rivo-celTM, is an allogeneic polyclonal T cell therapy that has shown promising clinical trial results in reducing leukemia relapse after a stem cell transplant. Bellicum’s lead GoCAR-T® candidate, BPX-601, is designed to be a more efficacious CAR-T cell product capable of overriding key immune inhibitory mechanisms. More information can be found at www.bellicum.com.
Forward-Looking Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include statements regarding our intentions, beliefs, projections, outlook, analyses or current expectations concerning, among other things the MAA filing of our lead product rivo-cel in the E.U. and the expansion of clinical studies with our lead GoCAR-T candidate, BPX-601. Various factors may cause differences between Bellicum’s expectations and actual results as discussed in greater detail under the heading “Risk Factors” in Bellicum’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including without limitation our quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the three months ended September 30, 2018 and our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017. Any forward-looking statements that Bellicum makes in this press release speak only as of the date of this press release. Bellicum assumes no obligation to update our forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, after the date of this press release.
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