CytRx Corporation announced that Shanta Chawla, M.D., who has served as the company's Vice President of Clinical Development since 2014, is being promoted to Senior Vice President of Drug Development and will assume the leadership of CytRx's on-going clinical drug development and regulatory functions. Daniel Levitt, M.D., Ph.D., CytRx's Chief Operating and Medical Officer, is stepping down effective July 7, 2017, and the position will be eliminated. Scott Wieland, Ph.D., the company's SVP of Drug Development, will also be stepping down effective June 30, 2017.