Richard Scheller. Stanford via YouTube

Ex-Genen­tech star and 23andMe vet Richard Scheller jumps to new­ly pub­lic uni­corn biotech Bridge­Bio as ‘chair­man of R&D’

So what ex­act­ly is a chair­man of R&D?

We found out this evening — cour­tesy of a con­nec­tion made at STAT — that star sci­en­tist Richard Scheller, who made his bones as head of R&D at the star-span­gled Genen­tech, now holds that lofty ti­tle at the new­ly pub­lic Bridge­Bio $BBIO, a new­fan­gled biotech um­brel­la group run by Neil Ku­mar.

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