EUSA Pharma Announces Appointment Of Carsten Thiel As President Europe And Darrel P. Cohen As Head of Clinical Development

EUSA Pharma (EUSA), a global biopharmaceutical company focused on oncology and rare disease, today announced the strengthening of its senior leadership team with the appointments of Carsten Thiel as President Europe and Darrel P. Cohen as Head of Clinical Development. Both Dr Thiel and Dr Cohen bring extensive senior level pharmaceutical company experience to these newly-created roles, and will lead EUSA’s growing commercial infrastructure in Europe and worldwide late-stage clinical development activities respectively.

Carsten Thiel PhD brings 27 years’ commercial experience to EUSA gained in a variety of international roles in the pharmaceutical industry. Most recently he was CEO of US-based gene therapy specialist Abeona Therapeutics Inc. This followed a number of years as Chief Commercial Officer at rare disease leader Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc., where he previously led the company’s EMEA, Asia Pacific and Australasia organizations. Prior to this he was the Head of Europe at Amgen, which followed a period leading the company’s European oncology franchise. He started his career in the pharmaceutical industry at Hoffmann La-Roche and holds a PhD in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from the Max Planck Institute in Germany.

Darrel P. Cohen MD, PhD is a hematologist / oncologist with 20 years’ clinical development experience in the pharmaceutical industry. He joins EUSA from Pfizer’s global oncology organization where he was Vice President, Clinical Development Leader, having previously led clinical development for multiple successful oncology products, including XALKORI® and SUTENT®. Prior to this he was a Director of Clinical Research at Sanofi-Aventis Oncology and an Associate Director of Clinical Research at Pharmacia Oncology.  He was previously a Hematology / Oncology Fellow, then Associate in Medicine at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC having gained his MD and PhD in Microbiology from the Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA.  – PR Newswire