Lu­ba Green­wood takes the helm at Ko­jin Ther­a­peu­tics, steer­ing an all-fe­male C-suite; Alex­ion R&D chief packs up for change of scenery at VC firm

How rare is it to find a woman lead­ing a mi­cro- or small-cap biotech com­pa­ny? Ac­cord­ing to a re­cent sur­vey, it hap­pens less than 6% of the time. And all-fe­male C-suites? Al­most un­heard of.

But on Thurs­day, Ko­jin Ther­a­peu­tics of­fi­cial­ly tapped Lu­ba Green­wood as its first CEO, com­plet­ing an all-fe­male C-suite. All of the biotech’s se­nior sci­en­tists are women too, as is the sci­en­tif­ic co-founder. It’s a mo­ment that Green­wood al­ways be­lieved would come.

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