Fresh off Fer­Gene's melt­down, David Meek takes over at Mi­rati with lead KRAS drug rac­ing to an ap­proval

In the in­su­lar world of biotech, a spec­tac­u­lar fail­ure can some­times stay on any ex­ec­u­tive’s record for a long time. But for David Meek, the man at the helm of Fer­Gene’s re­cent im­plo­sion, two ques­tion­able ex­its made way for what could be an ex­cel­lent re­bound.

Meek, most re­cent­ly Fer­Gene’s CEO and a past head at Ipsen, has be­come CEO at Mi­rati Ther­a­peu­tics, tak­ing the reins from found­ing CEO Charles Baum, who will step over in­to the role of pres­i­dent and head of R&D, ac­cord­ing to a re­lease.

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