David Meek (via Bloomberg/Getty)

David Meek hands in his CEO ti­tle at Ipsen, leap­ing across the At­lantic to run a start­up prep­ping its first US drug launch

In No­vem­ber Fer­ring spun out its late-stage blad­der can­cer gene ther­a­py in­to a new US-based com­pa­ny backed by $570 mil­lion. A few weeks lat­er the new­ly launched Fer­Gene post­ed im­pres­sive piv­otal da­ta for the nov­el ther­a­py, al­ready un­der pri­or­i­ty re­view at the FDA. And now the biotech will start 2020 with a high-pro­file CEO at the top to be­gin the mis­sion on com­mer­cial­iza­tion work — as­sum­ing the OK comes through.

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