Kancera AB (publ) announced that Robert Edfors is appointed as new Chief Scientific Officer and Senior Vice President Clinical Development and that the management team is extended with two new positions. Robert Edfors, MD, PhD will assume the role as new Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) and Senior Vice President Clinical Development on September 1, 2024. Up until then, Thomas Olin will remain as CSO.

Thomas Olin, PhD, one of Kancera's co-founders, possesses extensive expertise concerning the fractalkine program and will continue to work for the company after the hand over as a scientific advisor. Olin will also remain as board member. Robert Edfors, specialist in cardiology and internal medicine, will be scientifically responsible for the company's research and development program, including being responsible for development of intellectual property.

Edfors has more than 15 years of combined experience from the pharmaceutical industry, academic research and as clinician. Edfors is joining Kancera from a role as global medical affairs physician, Cardiovascular Studies & Pipeline, at Bayer AG. Prior to Bayer, Edfors worked as cardiologist at the Karolinska university hospital.

Edfors has a medical degree from the University of Copenhagen and holds a PhD in cardiology from the Karolinska Institute. In addition to the management team positions above, Kancera also announces that Roger Sohlberg is recruited to the new role of Director Chemistry Manufacturing & Control (CMC). Sohlberg is responsible for the management of outsourced manufacturing of drug substance and drug product for clinical studies.

Sohlberg has approximately 25 years of experience of process development and manufacturing in the pharmaceutical industry, covering both inhouse and outsourced manufacturing. Prior to joining Kancera, Sohlberg held various CMC positions at Astra Zeneca, Recipharm, Fresenius Kabi and Vivesto. Sohlberg holds a Master of Science degree in chemistry from the University of Uppsala.