Flag­ship keeps ex-FDA com­mish Stephen Hahn busy with an­oth­er CMO gig; Daphne Koller makes key hire at in­sitro by wel­com­ing Google and Face­book vet

→ What’s next for Stephen Hahn, you ask? It’s an in­ter­im CMO post at Flag­ship’s Your­Bio Health, the mak­er of kits that side­step the con­ven­tion­al meth­ods of blood col­lec­tion in fa­vor of push-but­ton de­vices. Hahn joined Flag­ship in June as CMO of its Pre­emp­tive Med­i­cine and Health Se­cu­ri­ty ini­tia­tive af­ter a top­sy-turvy run as FDA com­mis­sion­er in the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion. Hahn re­ceived his share of flak when he ex­tolled the virtues of con­va­les­cent phar­ma be­fore the emer­gency use au­tho­riza­tions of the Mod­er­na and Pfiz­er/BioN­Tech Covid-19 vac­cines, even­tu­al­ly walk­ing back his com­ments. Con­verse­ly, Hahn re­ceived ku­dos for stay­ing res­olute on safe­ty fol­lowup from clin­i­cal tri­als. A month af­ter his FDA tenure, Hahn joined the board of di­rec­tors at Black­fynn.

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