ImmunoGen’s Mark Enyedy On Striking Deals – And Curing Cancer

Veteran biopharma deal-maker Mark Enyedy has a new role as CEO of ImmunoGen, currently an investor favorite – company shares are up nearly 200% this year. In this interview he discusses corporate restructuring, the evolving role of business development and making new scientific inroads against hard-to-treat cancers.

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Mark Enyedy

In taking the top job at the Massachusetts-based cancer specialty biotech ImmunoGen Inc.Mark Enyedy supplements his reputation as a top industry deal-maker with a new assignment: turnaround artist. Since joining ImmunoGen in May 2016, the 53-year-old Harvard Law graduate and veteran of Shire PLC and Genzyme Corp. has pursued a course designed to protect the company’s essential raw material – a sound base in cutting-edge science – while shifting the business model decisively toward a future characterized by a tight focus on next-gen antibody drug conjugate (ADC) platforms that ImmunoGen intends to commercialize on its own.

In the following Q&A, Enyedy reflects on his experience as a big ticket deal spinner – supervising Shire’s purchase and integration of two multibillion-dollar companies, Baxalta Inc. and

ImmunoGen's Four-Step Restructure
  1. Lower general and administrative expenses
  2. Streamline manufacturing
  3. Enhance clinical operations
  4. Out-license B-cell lymphoma ADCs

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