Brid­get Martell on tak­ing Yale spin­out 'to adult­hood'; Cul­li­nan On­col­o­gy CEO an­nounces res­ig­na­tion as Bris­tol My­ers hema­tol­ogy ex­ec is wel­comed aboard

Brid­get Martell’s first clin­i­cal tri­al was an un­ortho­dox one.

Then a res­i­dent in in­ter­nal med­i­cine at Yale, she was giv­en an award to ex­plore a ca­reer in clin­i­cal re­search — which was how she wound up lead­ing a Phase I study for a ther­a­peu­tic co­caine vac­cine de­signed to help over­come ad­dic­tion. She end­ed up over­see­ing the tri­al from Pa­tient 1 to Pa­tient 110 and, in the end, the ear­ly tri­al was pos­i­tive.

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