OncoMed Announces Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Paul J. Hastings to Resume Chairman Responsibilities

Office of the President continues to perform the duties of President and CEO


REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Nov. 27, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- OncoMed Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:OMED), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing novel anti-cancer therapeutics, today announced that Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Paul J. Hastings will resume his Chairman of the Board responsibilities, effective December 4, 2017.

The Office of the President, comprised of Executive Vice President, Research and Development, John Lewicki, and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Sunil Patel, will continue to perform the duties of President and CEO. The Office of the President will continue to report to a special committee of the Board of Directors composed of Deepa Pakianathan, Jack Lasersohn, Rick Winningham and Perry Karsen.

“We are excited to have Paul actively back in the Chairman role at OncoMed,” said Jack Lasersohn, Lead Director. “The Board, under Paul’s leadership, will continue to work closely with the Office of the President and the OncoMed management team to advance our therapies to patients.”

“I look forward to re-engaging with the OncoMed Board of Directors and the dedicated OncoMed team on the company’s strategy to ensure our clinical programs progress and our scientific team continues to discover and develop novel therapeutics for cancer patients,” said Paul Hastings, Chairman of the Board of Directors.

About OncoMed Pharmaceuticals
OncoMed Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing novel anti-cancer therapeutics. OncoMed has internally discovered a broad pipeline of investigational drugs intended to address the fundamental biology driving cancer's growth, resistance, recurrence and metastasis.  Navicixizumab (anti-DLL4/VEGF bispecific, OMP-305B83), rosmantuzumab (anti-RSPO3, OMP-131R10) and anti-TIGIT (OMP-313M32) are part of OncoMed’s strategic alliance with Celgene Corporation. OncoMed is independently developing GITRL-Fc (OMP-336B11), as well as continuing to pursue new drug discovery research. OncoMed is also evaluating potential partnering opportunities for vantictumab (anti-Fzd, OMP-18R5) and ipafricept (Fzd8-Fc, OMP-54F28).  For further information about OncoMed Pharmaceuticals, please see www.oncomed.com.

Forward Looking Statements

To the extent that statements contained in this press release are not descriptions of historical facts regarding OncoMed Pharmaceuticals, they are forward-looking statements reflecting the current beliefs and expectations of management made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including, without limitation, OncoMed's intentions and expectations; OncoMed’s ability to advance its clinical programs and discover and develop novel therapeutics for cancer patients; and the potential partnering opportunities for OncoMed's vantictumab and ipafricept programs.  Such forward-looking statements involve substantial risks and uncertainties that could cause OncoMed's clinical development programs, future results, performance or achievements to differ significantly from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, among others, the uncertainties inherent in the preclinical and clinical development process; OncoMed's dependence on its collaboration partner Celgene for the funding of its partnered programs; OncoMed's ability to raise additional capital to support the development of its unpartnered programs; OncoMed's reliance on third parties to conduct certain preclinical studies and all of its clinical trials; OncoMed's reliance on single source third-party contract manufacturing organizations to manufacture and supply its product candidates; and OncoMed's dependence on its key executives. OncoMed undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements. For a further description of the risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from those expressed in these forward-looking statements, as well as risks relating to OncoMed's business in general, see OncoMed's Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on March 9, 2017, OncoMed’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on November 2, 2017, and OncoMed's other current and periodic reports filed with the SEC.

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