Eiger BioPharmaceuticals Appoints Industry Veteran Eldon Mayer as Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer
"We are excited to welcome
"Eiger represents a unique opportunity to bring first-in-class, transformational medicines to patients in need. It's been a pleasure to serve as an independent board member for the company, and I am now honored to join the executive management team and look forward to implementing highly successful strategies to enable access of new therapies for patients in need," said Mr. Mayer.
Eiger concurrently announced that Mr. Mayer has resigned from its Board to focus on his new role as a member of the executive team. "We want to sincerely thank Eldon for his contributions to the Eiger Board and wish him the best in his new role as Executive Vice President and CCO," said
About Eiger
Eiger is a late-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of first-in-class, well-characterized drugs for serious rare and ultra-rare diseases for patients with high unmet medical needs, for which no approved therapies exist.
Eiger has initiated a rolling New Drug Application (NDA) submission process for lonafarnib to treat Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS or Progeria) and Progeroid Laminopathies. The company's lead program is in Phase 3, developing lonafarnib, a first-in-class oral prenylation inhibitor for the treatment of Hepatitis Delta Virus (HDV) infection. The company is also advancing peginterferon lambda, a first-in-class interferon, toward registration for the treatment of HDV. For additional information about Eiger and its clinical programs, please visit www.eigerbio.com.
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