Medivir AB Appoints Jenens Lindberg as New CEO

Medivir AB is a Sweden-based pharmaceutical research and development company with focus on oncology. The Company specializes in protease inhibitor design and nucleoside and nucleotide science, applying it to development of therapies for cancers with unmet medical need. The Company's clinical pipeline consists of remetinostat, a topical histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor in phase II of clinical studies for the treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL), birinapant in combination with Keytruda (pembrolizumab) in phase I of clinical studies for the treatment of solid tumors, MIV-818, a nucleotide-based prodrug in phase I of clinical trials for the treatment of liver cancer, and MIV-711, a cathepsin K (CTSK) inhibitor in IIa extension study for the treatment of osteoarthritis. Furthermore, the Company has additional research projects in cooperation with other institutions.