Alejandro (Alex) D. Ricart, M.D is a board-certified medical oncologist with an international clinical practice background. Alex has more than 20 years of clinical development experience in advancing programs through early and late stages of development. He has led multidisciplinary teams and has extensive knowledge of clinical trial design and execution in big pharma as well as biotech companies. He has been in teams that achieved initial indications for INLYTA®, KEYTRUDA®, BOSULIF®, KISQALI®, TRAZIMERA™, ZIRABEV™, RUXIENCE™, UKONIQ™, and BRIUMVI®, designing and/or conducting registrational trials for axitinib, pembrolizumab, trastuzumab and rituximab biosimilars. In academia, Alex practiced at the Drug Development Program, CTRC and Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
He participated in several early development studies of ADC when he practiced at the CTRC. He was a speaker at the First World ADC Summit in Boston in 2010 and he presented clinical research as well as review topics at other relevant scientific conferences including the European Society for Medical Oncology, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, the PepTalk (The Protein Science Week), and at the Oncology Strategy Meeting in 2021. Alex participated in the design of ADC at the Biotechnology Unit at Pfizer between 2010 and 2013. Moreover, he has published review articles as first author in peer-reviewed journals including Nature Oncology, Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, and Clinical Cancer Research; and he edited a book titled Drug Delivery in Oncology with a chapter about ADC in 2014. Since then, Alex has had the opportunity of consulting on multiple ADC topics.