Bris­tol-My­ers bumps off chief sci­en­tist in an­oth­er big shake­up, bring­ing in Cel­gene and No­var­tis ex­ecs

Just 2 years af­ter Tom Lynch stepped from the board room to the top sci­en­tif­ic po­si­tion at Bris­tol-My­ers Squibb, he’s out.

The phar­ma gi­ant re­port­ed Wednes­day morn­ing that Lynch will leave his post as CSO in four months, mov­ing Cel­gene R&D ex­ec Ru­pert Vessey in­to the top re­search po­si­tion af­ter the big merg­er while re­cruit­ing No­var­tis on­col­o­gy de­vel­op­ment head Samit Hi­rawat for chief med­ical of­fi­cer with com­mand of the de­vel­op­ment group.

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