GSK R&D chief Val­lance is out as its new CEO changes di­rec­tion un­der a new crew

Im­age: Patrick Val­lance.

The R&D chief at Glax­o­SmithK­line is jump­ing ship, just as new CEO Em­ma Walm­s­ley push­es through the fi­nal changes of a top-to-bot­tom shake­up aimed at spurring a more com­mer­cial­ly ef­fec­tive strat­e­gy in drug de­vel­op­ment.

Patrick Val­lance is turn­ing in his com­pa­ny cre­den­tials in ex­change for a new job in gov­ern­ment, ac­cord­ing to sev­er­al re­ports out of Lon­don, with plans to take a job as a se­nior ad­vis­er to the gov­ern­ment on sci­ence, though the Fi­nan­cial Times says that the cur­rent oc­cu­pant of that job isn’t slat­ed to leave for some months.

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