C4 Ther­a­peu­tics bumps An­drew Phillips to CEO; Milind Desh­pande ex­its Achillion; Leena Gand­hi to head up I/O at Eli Lil­ly

An­drew Phillips has been div­ing deep in­to the biotech side of things ever since he left the acad­e­mia to join C4 Ther­a­peu­tics — he start­ed off lead­ing the sci­en­tif­ic ef­forts but soon af­ter as­sumed cor­po­rate and man­age­ment du­ties as pres­i­dent. Now, he’s tak­ing an­oth­er step up to be­come CEO of the pro­tein degra­da­tion biotech. That leaves his pre­vi­ous CSO po­si­tion avail­able for Stew­art Fish­er, for­mer­ly C4T’s head of dis­cov­ery, to fill. Like Phillips, he had a brief stint at the Broad In­sti­tute be­fore join­ing the Wa­ter­town, MA-based biotech; but un­like the new CEO, who was a pro­fes­sor at Yale, Fish­er worked at As­traZeneca for more than 10 years. To­geth­er, they are ex­pect­ed to build on the tar­get­ed pro­tein degra­da­tion plat­form and al­liances they’ve es­tab­lished to re­al­ize C4T’s po­ten­tial in ar­eas like can­cer, in­fec­tious dis­ease and au­toim­mune dis­or­ders.

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