Ex-Den­dreon chief Mitch Gold steers his way back to the pub­lic mar­kets, look­ing to jump­start a new clin­i­cal pro­gram

Mitch Gold is com­ing back to the helm of a pub­lic biotech com­pa­ny.

The for­mer Den­dreon CEO — and cur­rent ven­ture cap­i­tal­ist — who was forced out of that com­pa­ny as Provenge slow­ly de­railed, is get­ting back in­to the pub­lic eye with con­sid­er­ably less fan­fare this time around.

Af­ter Ni­valis’ drug failed in a dis­as­trous at­tempt to come up with an add-on to Ver­tex’s cys­tic fi­bro­sis com­bo, about the on­ly thing left af­ter the in­evitable slash and burn on staff and costs was a vir­tu­al­ly emp­ty pub­lic shell.

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