Buzzy an­ti-ag­ing biotech Cal­i­co re­cruits Am­gen vet for a top re­search post

Arthur Levin­son has re­cruit­ed an Am­gen vet as Cal­i­co’s new head of de­vel­op­ment for every­thing in pre­clin­i­cal through Phase II de­vel­op­ment at Google’s buzzy an­ti-ag­ing biotech.

Aarif Khakoo, who most re­cent­ly head­ed a team of 100 in­ves­ti­ga­tors do­ing the trans­la­tion­al work at Am­gen, is head­ed over to Cal­i­co, which has its base in South San Fran­cis­co. His ear­li­er work left him in charge of every­thing from first-in-hu­man to proof-of-con­cept stud­ies for car­diometa­bol­ic, in­flam­ma­tion, neu­ro­science and on­col­o­gy, as well as clin­i­cal bio­mark­ers, in vit­ro di­ag­nos­tics, and dig­i­tal health.

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