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Interview with the President, CEO and Director: Mustang Bio, Inc. (NASDAQ:MBIO)

Litchman, Manuel
Manuel Litchman, M.D., President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Mustang Bio, Inc. Dr. Litchman has served as President and Chief Executive Officer and has been a member of Mustang’s board of directors since April 2017. Dr. Litchman joined Mustang from Arvinas, LLC, where he served as President and Chief Executive Officer. While at Arvinas, Dr. Litchman oversaw the advancement of the company’s pipeline of protein-degradation therapeutics for the treatment of cancers and other diseases toward investigational new drug applications, as well as the execution of multitarget discovery collaborations with Merck and Genentech. Prior to Arvinas, Dr. Litchman spent more than 18 years with Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, where he held positions of increasing responsibility related to the development of Novartis’ oncology pipeline. Most recently, Dr. Litchman served as Senior Vice President and Executive Global Program Head, CTL019, Cell & Gene Therapies Unit, where he led a collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania investigating chimeric antigen receptor modified T cells — CAR-Ts — directed against CD19 on B-cell malignancies. Prior to the CTL019 collaboration, Dr. Litchman served as Novartis’ Vice President and Head, Oncology Business Development & Licensing. Earlier in his career, Dr. Litchman was a senior equity analyst at Ursus Capital and directed oncology/immunology clinical research at Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. Dr. Litchman received his M.D. from Yale University School of Medicine and his B.A. from Princeton University. He completed his internal medicine residency and hematology-oncology fellowship at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. Profile
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TWST: Mustang Bio is developing both CAR-T and gene therapies for the treatment of various diseases. For the uninitiated, how does one best distinguish between those two

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