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Feb 21, 2024

KaliVir Immunotherapeutics Appoints James M. Burke, M.D., as Chief Medical Officer

Jan 31, 2024

KaliVir Announces Opening of GMP Cleanroom Facility, Increasing Manufacturing Capacity for Oncolytic Viruses

Oct 24, 2023

KaliVir Immunotherapeutics Announces FDA Clearance of Investigational New Drug (IND) for Systemic Oncolytic Virus ASP1012 for Phase I Clinical Trials for Locally Advanced or Metastatic Solid Tumors

May 19, 2023

KaliVir Immunotherapeutics Announces New In Vivo Data Demonstrating Superior Therapeutic Efficacy of VET3-TGI at the American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (ASGCT) Annual Meeting

May 10, 2023

KaliVir Immunotherapeutics Appoints Viral Immunotherapy Researcher Grant McFadden, Ph.D., to its Board of Directors

May 3, 2023

KaliVir Immunotherapeutics Announces Presentation at the American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (ASGCT) Annual Meeting

Apr 17, 2023

KaliVir Immunotherapeutics Announces New In Vivo Data Demonstrating Potent Therapeutic Activity for Oncolytic Therapy VET3-TGI at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting

Dec 13, 2022

KaliVir Immunotherapeutics Establishes Clinical and Scientific Advisory Boards

Nov 10, 2022

KaliVir Immunotherapeutics Announces Pre-Clinical Data for Oncolytic Therapy VET3-TGI at the Society for Immunology of Cancer (SITC) 37th Annual Meeting

Nov 1, 2022

KaliVir Appoints Industry Veteran Adina Pelusio as Senior Vice President of Clinical Operations to Lead Clinical Development Pipeline

Oct 24, 2022

KaliVir Immunotherapeutics to Present at 14th International Oncolytic Virotherapy Conference (IOVC)

Oct 5, 2022

KaliVir Immunotherapeutics to Present Data on its Novel Pre-Clinical Oncolytic Therapy VET3-TGI at the Society for Immunology of Cancer (SITC) Annual Meeting

May 23, 2022

KaliVir Immunotherapeutics Enters into Global Exclusive Licensing Agreement with Roche for Novel Oncolytic Viruses

Mar 16, 2022

KaliVir Immunotherapeutics Closes Series A Financing

Nov 4, 2021

KaliVir Immunotherapeutics Strengthens Intellectual Property Position Through Issuance of Two U.S. Patents.

December 7, 2020

KaliVir Immunotherapeutics and Astellas Enter Worldwide Exclusive Licensing Agreement for Development and Commercialization of VET2-L2 Novel Oncolytic Virus.

2020

How Stephen Thorne and Helena Chaye are blending their talents to create Breakthrough cancer fighting therapies

June 17, 2021

KaliVir Immunotherapeutics appoints Drs. Terry Hermiston and Jon Wigginton to Board of Directors

JAMES M. BURKE, M.D.

Chief Medical Officer

Dr. James Burke is a University of California, San Francisco trained hematologist and oncologist who has led clinical development of gene therapy and oncolytic viruses for cancer for over 15 years including first in human through Phase 3 studies. Most recently, Dr Burke served as Chief Medical Officer of Sillajen (previously Jennerex) leading Phase 1-3 global development of a vaccinia virus platform for multiple cancers including HCC, RCC, and CRC.

The global Phase 3 registration trial targeting advanced HCC represents one of the largest oncolytic studies conducted to date spanning four continents including North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. This Phase 3 study was the first oncolytic virus study conducted by a foreign biotech in China and one of only a few OV trials to ever be conducted in mainland China. Aside from Sillajen, Dr Burke led initial Phase 1-2 clinical development of Turnstone’s maraba virus prime-boost oncolytic virus program as CMO through initial studies and fund raising.

Dr Burke started his career at Cell Genesys spearheading early gene and immunotherapy studies including oncolytic adenovirus, lentivirus, AAV, and tumor vaccine programs. In addition to his biotechnology experience, Dr Burke directed studies as a clinical scientist including first in human studies in oncolytic viruses, tumor vaccines, as well as other cancer therapeutics in Phase 1-3 development.

Throughout his career he has had extensive interaction with global regulatory authorities and key academicians, led clinical development of numerous agents, built expert research teams, presented his research findings in key scientific journals and symposia, and led medical discussions and negotiations with external financing entities including venture capital and pharma.

ADINA PELUSIO

Senior Vice President of Clinical Operations

Ms. Pelusio has more than 20 years of experience in drug development. Before joining KaliVir, she served as Senior Vice President of Clinical Operations at Turnstone Biologics, where she oversaw the advancement of candidate oncolytic viruses, cancer vaccines and adoptive cell therapies into clinical trials. Prior, Ms. Pelusio spent 10 years at SillaJen, Inc. (formerly Jennerex Biotherapeutics) where she led the introduction of oncolytic viruses into 17 countries across Phase I-III clinical trials. She holds an M.S. from the University of Florida and is pursuing an M.P.H. from Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

STEPHEN H. THORNE, Ph.D.

Chief Scientific Officer

Stephen Thorne co-founded Kalivir in 2019 and currently serves as Chief Scientific Officer. He is a leader in the field of oncolytic viral immunotherapy and previously co-founded Western Oncolytics, BioEclipse and Jennerex, which is currently advancing Pexa-Vec through late-stage clinical trials.

Stephen was a Professor of Cell Biology and Immunology at the University of Pittsburgh and received his B.A. from Oxford University, UK and Ph.D. from Imperial College of London. Stephen has served in post doctorate roles at Surrey University, Cancer Research UK, and Stanford University and has authored more than 100 scientific publications in the field.

HELENA CHAYE, Ph.D., J.D.

Chief Executive Officer

Helena has over 23 years of experience in the biotechnology industry having held leadership positions in operations, corporate affairs, business development and IP management primarily in oncolytic virotherapy development. Most recently, Helena served as Chief Business Officer at SillaJen Biotherapeutics, Inc. where she managed all operations including corporate and business development strategies, R&D strategy and intellectual property. Prior to joining SillaJen, Helena held the positions of VP of Corporate Affairs & IP at Jennerex Biotherapeutics and the Director of Business Development at MediGene. Helena received her B.S. in Biochemistry and her Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of British Columbia and her J.D. from Dalhousie University.