Hideki Garren, new Prothena CMO

Big Phar­ma R&D vet­er­an with block­buster cre­den­tials re­turns to his biotech roots as Prothena's new CMO

In 2018, Prothena CMO Sarah Noon­berg left the com­pa­ny af­ter just nine months on the job, lat­er pop­ping up at Nohla Ther­a­peu­tics. Now, near­ly three years lat­er, Prothena has tapped some­one to fill her emp­ty role.

Neu­ro­science ex­pert Hide­ki Gar­ren joined Prothena’s South San Fran­cis­co team on Mon­day, just three days af­ter leav­ing his post as Genen­tech’s VP and glob­al head of neu­roim­munol­o­gy. The Big Phar­ma vet­er­an — who led Roche’s Phase III pro­grams for its block­buster MS drug Ocre­vus — told End­points News he was at­tract­ed by the op­por­tu­ni­ty to re­turn to his roots at a small biotech.

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