A play­er in the bustling mi­cro­bio­me R&D are­na pro­motes its CSO to the top post -- just ahead of a PhII NASH study

There’s been a change of lead­er­ship — and strat­e­gy — at one of the Bay Area biotechs look­ing to play a promi­nent role in mi­cro­bio­me R&D.

Glenn Ned­win is out as CEO of Sec­ond Genome, leav­ing the top post open for chief sci­en­tif­ic of­fi­cer Karim Dab­bagh to step in­to. Al­so out is the broad-based ap­proach to R&D that Ned­win had, in­clud­ing ag work, as the biotech looks to cre­ate a ra­zor-sharp fo­cus on an up­com­ing Phase II for NASH — a block­buster tar­get which has in­spired a fren­zy of com­pe­ti­tion.

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