Mary Szela re­signs as CEO of Nov­e­l­ion; Chi­na is prov­ing to be a re­ward­ing mar­ket for As­traZeneca

→ Af­ter re­or­ga­niz­ing Aege­ri­on and lead­ing the com­pa­ny through the merg­er with QLT that turned it in­to Nov­e­l­ion, CEO Mary Szela is leav­ing her po­si­tion for per­son­al rea­sons. Her res­ig­na­tion is ef­fec­tive im­me­di­ate­ly, and while the rare dis­ease biotech $NVLN search­es for a new CEO, a team of three ex­ecs will fill the of­fice. Lat­er this month, Mur­ray Stew­art will join as EVP and head of R&D, as the com­pa­ny pre­pares to launch Jux­tapid in Japan and an­tic­i­pates an EMA ap­proval for me­treleptin (Myalept) ear­ly next year.

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