En­tra­da picks Syn­tim­mune vet Mario Saltarel­lo as CMO; Gene ther­a­py mak­er Or­chard hires Ran Zheng as CTO

→ En­tra­da Ther­a­peu­tics, the start­up launched by 5AM and MPM Cap­i­tal to de­vel­op ther­a­pies based on a fam­i­ly of cell-pen­e­trat­ing small cyclic pep­tides that Ohio State pro­fes­sor De­hua Pei dis­cov­ered, has found a chief med­ical of­fi­cer in Mario Saltarel­li. “His ex­pe­ri­ences at both ven­ture-backed biotech­nol­o­gy and glob­al phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pa­nies have in­volved him in every as­pect of bring­ing a med­i­cine from bench to bed­side,” said CEO Di­pal Doshi, re­fer­ring to Saltarel­li’s stints at Syn­tim­mune, Ver­tex, An­nex­on and Mallinck­rodt, among oth­ers.

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