VBI Vaccines appoints Dr Blaine McKee to its Board of Directors

– USA, MA – VBI Vaccines Inc. (Nasdaq:VBIV), a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company developing next-generation infectious disease and immuno-oncology vaccines, today announced the appointment of Blaine McKee, Ph.D., Executive Vice President and Chief Business Officer of ImmunoGen, Inc., to the company’s Board of Directors.

“Blaine is an excellent addition to our Board of Directors, bringing with him a 25-year track record of building successful biotech companies,” said Jeff Baxter, VBI’s president and CEO. “His extensive transactional, strategic, and market access expertise will be invaluable, particularly as our Hepatitis B vaccine, Sci-B-Vac, transitions from clinical development to the commercial stage.”

About Dr Blaine McKee

Dr. McKee brings more than two decades of experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries to VBI’s Board of Directors. Before joining ImmunoGen in April 2018, he served as Head of Corporate Development at Shire PLC, where he led corporate strategy, M&A, due diligence, commercial assessment, and alliance management efforts. While at Shire, over a four-year tenure, Dr. McKee was responsible for executing multiple M&A, licensing, and divestment transactions, most recently the sale of Shire’s commercial oncology franchise to Servier S.A.S. for ~$2.4 billion. Dr. McKee’s most significant and recent roles prior to joining Shire include Executive Vice President and Chief Business Officer of 480 Biomedical, as well as a 15-year tenure at Genzyme Corporation, which culminated in the role of Senior Vice President of Strategic Development for the Oncology, Transplant, and Multiple Sclerosis divisions.

Dr. McKee currently serves as Director for the New York Pharma Forum. He received a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Colorado State University, a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an MBA in Finance from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

“I am pleased to join VBI’s distinguished Board of Directors,” said Dr. McKee. “With expected clinical milestones across all four lead programs, 2019 is set to be a pivotal year for VBI. The company’s pipeline has incredible potential in both the infectious disease and oncology setting, and I look forward to working with the VBI team to achieve their ambitious goals.”

About VBI Vaccines Inc.

VBI Vaccines Inc. is a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a next generation of vaccines to address unmet needs in infectious disease and immuno-oncology. VBI is advancing the prevention and treatment of hepatitis B, with the only commercially-approved trivalent hepatitis B vaccine, Sci-B-Vac, which is approved for use in Israel and 10 other countries and is currently in a Phase 3 study in the U.S., Europe, and Canada, and with an immuno-therapeutic in development for a functional cure for chronic hepatitis B. VBI’s eVLP Platform technology allows for the development of enveloped virus-like particle vaccines that closely mimic the target virus to elicit a potent immune response. Integrating its cytomegalovirus expertise with the eVLP platform technology, VBI’s lead eVLP vaccine candidates include a prophylactic CMV vaccine candidate and a therapeutic glioblastoma  vaccine candidate. VBI is headquartered in Cambridge, MA with research operations in Ottawa, Canada and research and manufacturing facilities in Rehovot, Israel.

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