Brain­storm re­cruits No­var­tis vet Araya as chief com­mer­cial of­fi­cer; Roche out-li­cens­es IPF drug to Shang­hai's Ark

Brain­Storm Cell Ther­a­peu­tics $BCLI has ap­point­ed No­var­tis vet Ar­turo Araya as chief com­mer­cial of­fi­cer. Araya had been glob­al head of com­mer­cial of No­var­tis’ Cell and Gene Ther­a­pies Unit and has been on the board at Brain­storm since Feb­ru­ary of last year.

Roche struck a deal to out-li­cense an IPF drug to Shang­hai-based Ark Bio­sciences, helmed by CEO Jim Wu. The biotech got the glob­al rights to the drug, which has been through the first round of hu­man stud­ies. The state­ment did not in­clude any de­tails on the fi­nanc­ing.

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