Biotech sci­en­tist/en­tre­pre­neur Saurabh Sa­ha makes an un­usu­al re­turn to the arms of a big — and ex­ces­sive­ly dis­creet — R&D group

Over the past few years we’ve seen a grow­ing ex­o­dus of R&D ex­perts out of big bio­phar­ma groups and in­to the rapid­ly grow­ing ranks of biotech star­tups. Now, one of the biggest play­ers in the on­col­o­gy field is get­ting at least one suc­cess­ful biotech sci­en­tist and en­tre­pre­neur to make an un­usu­al re­turn trip and come back in­to the fold of a ma­jor re­search or­ga­ni­za­tion.

This morn­ing Bris­tol-My­ers Squibb $BMY put out word that the com­pa­ny had hired Saurabh Sa­ha to run the trans­la­tion sci­ence group for the com­pa­ny, which is re­spon­si­ble for triag­ing pre­clin­i­cal work of in­ter­est and steer­ing the most promis­ing pro­grams to­ward the clin­ic.

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