Michael Curtis, incoming eGenesis CEO

Ex­clu­sive: En route to first xeno­trans­plan­ta­tion tri­al, eGe­n­e­sis taps new CEO weeks af­ter CMO hire

When Michael Cur­tis joined xeno­trans­plan­ta­tion start­up eGe­n­e­sis as pres­i­dent of R&D in late-2020, he knew he’d one day be­come CEO.

He and Paul Sekhri, the out­go­ing CEO who will re­main on the board of the Church lab spin­out and serve as se­nior ad­vi­sor, have spent the past 18 months map­ping out that tran­si­tion. He climbs the lad­der just two weeks af­ter eGe­n­e­sis hired for­mer trans­plant sur­geon and two-decade clin­i­cal de­vel­op­ment leader Eliez­er Katz as med­ical chief.

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Alexandria Real Estate Equities

Cambridge, MA, USA