Amsterdam Molecular Therapeutics appoints chief medical officer

Dutch human gene therapy specialist hires Carlos Camozzi

Amsterdam Molecular Therapeutics (AMT), a Netherlands-based human gene therapy specialist, has appointed Carlos Camozzi as chief medical officer. He has more than 25 years of pharmaceutical industry experience, most recently within the orphan drug field. This includes overseeing product approvals at the European Medicines Agency and US Food and Drug Administration.

Camozzi joins AMT on 18 July from Orphan Europe, where he held the position of medical director for more than five years. Prior to this, he was a strategic development manager in the Molecular Pathology department of Basel University Hospital, Switzerland. In this role, he interacted with both pharmaceutical customers and regulatory authorities.

From 2001–2005, Camozzi was md of MCP-medeor consulting pharma, where he helped design preclinical and clinical development programmes for pharmaceutical and healthcare products.

Dr Camozzi started his career in South America holding roles at Lederle/American Cyanamid and F Hoffmann La-Roche.

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