Arndt Rolfs steps aside as Cen­to­gene CEO, with An­drin Os­wald named as his suc­ces­sor; João Sif­fert lands an­oth­er CEO post at De­sign Ther­a­peu­tics

→ There’s a change at the top at Ger­man rare dis­ease biotech Cen­to­gene. Arndt Rolfs de­cid­ed to step down as CEO, ef­fec­tive Tues­day, and Big Phar­ma vet An­drin Os­wald will re­place him start­ing Dec. 1. Os­wald, the del­e­gate for Covid-19 vac­cines and im­munother­a­pies for the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment of Switzer­land, re­cent­ly spent 4 years with the Bill & Melin­da Gates Foun­da­tion as di­rec­tor of life sci­ence in­dus­try en­gage­ment and part­ner­ships. He was al­so a busi­ness in­te­gra­tion ex­ec at GSK and di­vi­sion head of vac­cines & di­ag­nos­tics at No­var­tis.

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