Maria Cantor

Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, uniQure

Ms. Maria E. Cantor is Chief Corporate Affairs Officer for uniQure (Nasdaq:  QURE), a leading gene therapy company based in Lexington, MA and Amsterdam, the Netherlands that is advancing transformative therapies for patients with severe medical needs.  Maria oversees investor relations, corporate communications, patient advocacy, and government and industry relations.

She joined uniQure in June 2016 as Senior Vice President of Investor Relations and Communications, and was named Chief Communications Officer in September 2020.  She had previously held the role of Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs at ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc., where she was a member of the senior management team and was responsible for investor relations and corporate communications for the company.  She played an active role in several successful financing rounds for ARIAD and led the communications program for the clinical development, regulatory approval and product launch of the company’s first cancer therapeutic, Iclusig® (ponatinib), approved in both the U.S. and Europe. Prior to joining ARIAD, she held the position of Senior Director, Corporate Communications at Genzyme, where she was involved in all aspects of corporate and product communications from 2001 to 2008. In addition to her extensive expertise as a communicator for leading biotechnology companies, Ms. Cantor also held senior communications positions within the healthcare industry and served on the staff of U.S. Representative Martin T. Meehan.

Ms. Cantor holds a Master of Science in Communications Management from Syracuse University, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in Syracuse, New York and a Bachelor of Science in Mass Communication/Broadcast Journalism from Emerson College in Boston.