Kevin Smyth

Mr. Smyth joined Iovance in April 2018 and was appointed Senior Vice President, Quality in 2021. He has 30 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries. He previously served as Vice President, Regulatory, Quality and Pharmacovigilance at PaxVax, a private-equity company that marketed nine vaccines for infectious diseases in 25 countries. While at PaxVax he was responsible for the Biologics License Application (BLA) submission, priority review and first-cycle approval of Vaxchora®. Earlier he held roles of increasing responsibility at Baxter International, including as regulatory lead responsible for the development and submission of global market applications for Rixubis® (US, EU, Japan), now marketed in over 40 countries. Mr. Smyth received a B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Calgary and an M.S. in Toxicology from the Simon Fraser University (British Columbia).