About

Charmaine Gittleson

Chairman of the Board of Directors, BSc.MBBCh, GAICD 

Dr. Gittleson is the former Chief Medical Officer of CSL Limited with more than 20 years of experience in pharmaceutical development in Australia and the USA. Dr. Gittleson’s expertise spans many aspects of the pharmaceutical industry, from drug development and clinical research through to strategic planning and executive management. Dr. Gittleson has been involved in drug development programs across a wide range of different therapeutic areas, and has successfully worked with regulators in key markets such as the US, EU, Asia Pacific, Japan and South America to register new products to address unmet medical needs. Dr. Gittleson is currently the Chair of Percheron Therapeutics (ASX:PER) and a board member of George Medicines Pty Ltd.

James Campbell

Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, BSc (Hons), PhD, MBA, GAICD

Dr. Campbell has more than 20 years of international biotechnology research, management and leadership experience and has been involved in the creation and/or transformation of multiple successful Australian and international biotechnology companies.

Dr. Campbell was previously the CFO and COO of ChemGenex Pharmaceuticals Limited (ASX:CXS), where, as a member of the executive team he helped transform a research-based company with a market capitalization of $10M to a company with completed clinical trials and regulatory dossiers submitted to the FDA and EMA. In 2011 ChemGenex was sold to Cephalon for $230M.

Dr. Campbell was a foundation executive of Evolve Biosystems, and has assisted private biotechnology companies in Australia, New Zealand and the USA with successful capital raising and partnering negotiations. Dr Campbell chairs the board of Australia’s peak industry body for biotechnology, AusBiotech, and is a Non-Executive Director of Prescient Therapeutics Limited (ASX:PTX).

Michael Stork

Non-Executive Director, BBA

Mr. Stork was the Managing Director of Stork Holdings Ltd, an Investment Holding company active in the Canadian technology startup sector. Mr. Stork was on the Board of Governors of the University of Waterloo, and has served on the Boards of a number of other leading Canadian technology startup companies.

Pamela M. Klein

Non-Executive Director, BSc, MD

Dr. Pamela M. Klein completed her medical training at Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University in Chicago, followed by internal medicine training at Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, prior to spending 7 years working at the U.S. National Cancer Institute.

Dr. Klein then moved to Genentech where, as Vice President, Development she led the development of a large portfolio of drugs including all the HER (Herceptin, Tarceva, Perjeta), Apoptosis (antibodies and small molecules) and Hematology compounds. After Genentech Dr. Klein was appointed to the position of Chief Medical Officer of Intellikine where she built the clinical development capability and brought multiple early compounds from laboratory to clinic prior to Intellikine before being acquired by Millennium/Takeda.

Currently, Dr. Klein currently serves as an advisor to a range of different biotech and investment companies, with roles on Scientific Advisory Boards and Corporate Boards as well as broader advisory roles.

Stefan Ross

Company Secretary, BBus (Accounting)

Stefan Ross has over 10 years of experience in accounting and secretarial services for ASX Listed companies. His extensive experience includes ASX compliance, corporate governance control and implementation, statutory financial reporting, shareholder meeting requirements, capital raising management, preparation of prospectus’, and board and secretarial support. Mr Ross has a Bachelor of Business, majoring in Accounting.

Valentina Dubljevic

Vice President, Research and Development, MBB, BSc, GAICD

Ms. Dubljevic joined Patrys in June 2012 and is responsible for the pre-clinical and clinical development of Patrys’ products. Ms. Dubljevic brings more than 20 years of scientific and commercial experience in the areas of anti- cancer therapies, vaccine development, and diagnostics.

Prior to joining Patrys, she worked at the Monash University conducting research on malaria vaccine development; at Cytopia Limited developing small molecule anti-cancer drugs and at Monash Institute of Medical Research (MIMR) developing antibody therapies for cancer. She has extensive experience related to the drug development, management of pre-clinical studies, manufacturing, regulatory and clinical operations, contracts and project management and has co-authored multiple scientific papers and grants.

Ms. Dubljevic holds a Bachelor of Biomedical Science degree from Griffith University, Brisbane, a Masters in Biotechnology and Business degree from RMIT and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD).

Rebecca Tunstall

Vice President, Corporate Development, BApp Sc (Hons), PhD, GAICD

Dr. Rebecca Tunstall is Patrys’ Vice President, Corporate Development. Dr. Tunstall comes with an impressive resume of experience in clinical development and stakeholder engagement. She spent 13 years with GlaxoSmithKline, where she held various leadership roles, and was deeply involved in the company’s oncology clinical research and development program. More recently, Rebecca held the role of Senior Director of Stakeholder Engagement at MTPConnect, where she built strong relationships with industry, government, regulators and research partners, both in Australia, and internationally.

Peter Ordentlich, BSc, PhD

Dr. Peter Ordentlich completed a PhD in Immunology at the University of Pennsylvania and a Post-Doc at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies before joining X-Ceptor Therapeutics, a discovery stage biotechnology company focused on the identification of novel therapeutics for cardiovascular and oncology indications. Dr. Ordentlich spent five years as a research scientist leading multiple lead discovery and optimization projects at X-Ceptor Therapeutics, which was acquired by Exelixis in 2004.

In 2005 Dr. Ordentlich co-founded Syndax Pharmaceuticals, a NASDAQ-listed, clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing an innovative pipeline of cancer therapies with three clinical stage assets, where he is currently the Chief Scientific Officer.

Allen Ebens, BSc, PhD

Dr. Allen Eben’s formal training is in chemistry, molecular genetics, and neurobiology. After more than 25 years of professional experience in hematology, immunology, and oncology, he’s worked at Exelixis, Genentech, Juno Therapeutics, NGM Bio, Vera Therapeutics, and now serves as CSO at Adanate. In work that spans both biologic and small molecule platforms, he has advanced programs that include small molecule inhibitors, conventional antibody therapeutics, antibody-drug conjugates, T-cell recruiting antibodies, as well as CAR-T and TCR-based cellular therapies. Allen has played a key role in the ideation and development of one dozen candidates to clinical development including two FDA approvals. The most recent approval, mosunetuzumab, was conceived and refined in his lab at Genentech with colleague Laura Sun.