– USA, CA – Atara Biotherapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq:ATRA), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative therapies for patients with debilitating diseases, today announced that Eric Dobmeier has joined its Board of Directors.
Mr. Dobmeier is currently the Chief Operating Officer of Seattle Genetics, Inc., a biotechnology company. Mr. Dobmeier joined Seattle Genetics in March 2002 and has served in positions of increasing responsibility since then, most recently as Chief Business Officer from May 2007 to June 2011. Prior to joining Seattle Genetics, Mr. Dobmeier was an attorney with the law firms of Venture Law Group and Heller Ehrman LLP where he represented technology companies in connection with public and private financings, mergers and acquisitions and corporate partnering transactions. Mr. Dobmeier also serves as a director of Stemline Therapeutics, Inc., a public biotechnology company. Mr. Dobmeier received a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and an A.B. in History from Princeton University.
Isaac Ciechanover, Atara’s Chief Executive Officer, said, “We are honored to welcome Mr. Dobmeier to our Board of Directors. Eric’s vast experience and proven track record of success in this industry will be a tremendous asset to Atara going forward.”
Mr. Dobmeier commented, “I am delighted to join Atara’s Board of Directors. The management team has done an outstanding job building out a clinical stage pipeline in an innovative area of medicine. I look forward to working with them as they advance these programs into late stage development and potentially into the marketplace.”
About Atara Biotherapeutics, Inc.
Atara Biotherapeutics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative therapies for patients with debilitating diseases. Atara’s lead programs target myostatin and activin, members of the TGF-beta family of proteins that have demonstrated the potential to have therapeutic benefit in a number of clinical indications. In September 2014, Atara Biotherapeutics entered into an exclusive option agreement with MSK, under which it has the right to license (pursuant to a negotiated form of license agreement) the exclusive, worldwide rights to three clinical stage T-cell programs, including EBV-CTL, that recently received breakthrough therapy designation from the Food and Drug Administration, as well as other T-cell programs that are discovered or developed by MSK pursuant to sponsored research funded by the company.
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