Jose Car­los 'JC' Gutiér­rez-Ramos hits the ex­it at Syn­log­ic; Rich Hey­man pass­es Oric reins to ex-Igny­ta CFO

→ An abrupt res­ig­na­tion by pres­i­dent and CEO Jose Car­los Gutiér­rez-Ramos has left Syn­log­ic $SYBX in the hands of CMO Aoife Bren­nan. JC Gutiér­rez-Ramos ex­its the Cam­bridge biotech al­most ex­act­ly a year af­ter he or­ches­trat­ed its re­verse merg­er on­to Nas­daq, leav­ing be­hind an op­er­a­tion with two on­go­ing Phase I stud­ies and one dis­cov­ery pact with Ab­b­Vie, all built up­on Syn­log­ic’s spe­cial­ty in reengi­neer­ing bac­te­ria in­to ther­a­peu­tics. No rea­sons were giv­en for his de­par­ture, which comes three years af­ter he joined from Pfiz­er, where he held a high-pro­file R&D job. Pe­ter Bar­rett is step­ping in­to the ex­ec­u­tive chair­man’s role to en­sure Bren­nan can bal­ance her in­ter­im ex­ec­u­tive du­ties with all the re­search, pre­clin­i­cal ac­tiv­i­ties and clin­i­cal tri­als un­der­way. Gutiér­rez-Ramos” will serve in an ad­vi­so­ry ca­pac­i­ty as need­ed.”

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