Igny­ta founder boosts team at his new can­cer start­up; Cy­tomx CMO hits the ex­it

→ Igny­ta founder and ex-CEO Jonathan Lim is beef­ing up the team at Eras­ca, his new start­up ded­i­cat­ed to eras­ing can­cer. Genen­tech vet Gary Ye­ung has been pro­mot­ed to chief op­er­at­ing and fi­nan­cial of­fi­cer, leav­ing an open CBO role for David Chacko to step in. Chacko joins from Ver­sant Ven­tures, where, as a prin­ci­pal, he was cred­it­ed for ad­vanc­ing sev­er­al port­fo­lio com­pa­nies through fundrais­ing, busi­ness de­vel­op­ment and oth­er af­fairs. Les Brail, who has been work­ing on Neon’s per­son­al­ized neoanti­gen vac­cine, will be the VP of clin­i­cal de­vel­op­ment; Karen Gilmore, one of Lim’s old col­leagues at Igny­ta, has been tapped as VP of fi­nance.

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