Check­mate CEO hits the ex­it as Art Krieg's crew strug­gles to warm in­vestors to TLR9 strat­e­gy

Al­most three years af­ter pick­ing up the ba­ton from Art Krieg to help steer Check­mate’s TLR9 ag­o­nist deep­er in­to the clin­ic, CEO Bar­ry Labinger is out.

Alan Fuhrman, a board mem­ber and chair­man of the au­dit com­mit­tee, has stepped in to fill the in­ter­im pres­i­dent and CEO role, steady­ing the ship with his back­ground in fi­nan­cial op­er­a­tions. A for­mer board di­rec­tor at Loxo On­col­o­gy, Fuhrman has al­so been CFO at Am­plyx, Mir­na and Am­bit.

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