Boulder pharmaceutical company names new CEO

BOULDER — i2 Pharmaceuticals Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on personalized cancer treatment, has named David Stover, as CEO.

Stover brings to i2 more than 25 years of experience in both small-molecule and biologics drug discovery and development.

“Dave is an accomplished pharmaceutical researcher and scientist with considerable experience in the development of novel antibody-based therapeutics,” Bruce Eaton, i2’s chairman of the board, said in a prepared statement. “We are extremely pleased to have Dave at the helm of the company as we enter a strategic growth-phase driving our new business opportunities in antibody therapeutics.”

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Stover said he was excited for the new opportunity. “Our goal at i2 is to leverage the breadth of i2’s cutting edge discovery technologies to develop new novel-antibody based therapeutics.”

Prior to joining i2 Pharma, Stover most recently headed Agensys Inc., an Astellas Pharma affiliate focused on antibody and antibody drug conjugate development, where he led a team of 240 employees in the research, clinical manufacturing and development of five investigational new drugs and four clinical proof of concepts during a five-year period. He also founded the Oncology Biologics department at Novartis, where he served as its director, developing three clinical product candidates.