Geoff von Maltzahn (L) and David Davidson

David David­son’s R&D odyssey takes him out of blue­bird to an­oth­er biotech start­up with big plans to trans­form ther­a­py

David David­son’s near­ly decade-long stretch as the chief med­ical of­fi­cer at blue­bird bio ran the full gamut of drug hunt­ing events: Re­mark­able sci­en­tif­ic pi­o­neer­ing and clin­i­cal de­vel­op­ment at a one-time dar­ling of the in­dus­try, with a rocky but ul­ti­mate­ly suc­cess­ful reg­u­la­to­ry run get­ting break­through cell and gene ther­a­py drugs up to and across the fin­ish line, all while get­ting a hard look at the tough com­pet­i­tive land­scape that has tak­en shape in biotech’s boom years.

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