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This feature highlights changes in clinical trial organizations’ personnel.
Aevitas Therapeutics
Markus Peters, former chief operating officer of Gemini Therapeutics, takes the helm of Aevitas Therapeutics as its newest CEO.
Anokion SA
Deborah Geraghty has been named president and CEO of Swiss biotech company Anokion. Most recently, Geraghty was Anokion’s chief operating officer.
Centessa Pharmaceuticals
Moncef Slaoui has been tapped to serve as chief scientific officer of Centessa Pharmaceuticals. Slaoui recently resigned from his chief scientific adviser post with the U.S. COVID-19 vaccine effort Operation Warp Speed.
Cue Biopharma
Cue Biopharma has named Matteo Levisetti senior vice president of clinical development. Levisetti was formerly the chief medical officer of DNAtrix.
Daiichi Sankyo
Daiichi Sankyo has appointed Ken Takeshita as the company’s global head of R&D. Takeshita previously served as senior vice president and global head of development at Kite Pharma.
Genmab
Tahamtan Ahmadi has been appointed to the newly created role of chief medical officer and head of experimental medicines at Genmab. Ahmadi was previously Janssen’s head of experimental medicine and early development oncology divisions.
GlycoMimetics
Eric Feldman has been promoted from vice president of global clinical development to chief medical officer of GlycoMimetics. Prior to joining GlycoMimetics, Feldman was chief medical officer at Amphivena Therapeutics.
Insilico Medicine
Ren Feng has been hired by Insilico Medicine to serve as the company’s chief scientific officer. Most recently, Feng was senior vice president at Medicilon.
Monopar Therapeutics
Laura Kelly has been appointed director of clinical operations at Monopar Therapeutics. Prior to this appointment, Kelly served as senior manager and clinical site lead at EMD Serono.
NovalGen
Amit Nathwani, founder of NovalGen, is now CEO of the company. Nathwani, who is a professor of immunology at University College London, previously served as chief scientific officer of Freeline Therapeutics.
OncoSec
OncoSec has named Bridget O’Keeffe vice president of clinical development. O’Keeffe was most recently senior director of clinical development for Nektar Therapeutics.
PYC Therapeutics
Glenn Noronha, former chief scientific officer at BridgeBio, has been named chief development officer of PYC Therapeutics.
Wugen
Biotech company Wugen has appointed Jan Davidson to the role of chief medical officer. Davidson was most recently senior director for clinical research at Macrogenics.
Zimmer Biomet
Vafa Jamali has signed on as the CEO of Zimmer Biomet’s new spine and dental spinout business NEWCO. Jamali was recently the chief commercial officer for Rockley Photonics.
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