Kathryn Haviland

Biopharma Executive Council is a membership council that operates at the executive level in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries. The private company is based in Boston.

Bicara Therapeutics, Inc. is a company that develops first-in-class bifunctional antibodies for the treatment of solid tumors. The company is based in Cambridge, MA. The company's lead product candidate, bca101, is a first-in-class egfr/tgf-?-trap bifunctional antibody in clinical development for multiple tumor types. The company's bifunctional antibodies are designed to deliver an immunomodulatory payload directly to the tumor microenvironment to ramp up immune cell activity, offering the potential for synergistic therapeutic impact at the site of the tumor. Bicara has a deep pipeline of promising bifunctional antibodies and other biologics for treating solid tumors. The CEO of the company is Claire Mazumdar.

Idera Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, which focuses on the clinical development, and commercialization of drug candidates for both oncology and rare disease indications. The company was founded by Paul C. Zamecnik, Sudhir A. Agrawal, and James B. Wyngaarden on May 25, 1989 and is headquartered in Exton, PA.