Roy Baynes (Merck)

Mer­ck de­vel­op­ment chief Roy Baynes is step­ping out and re­unit­ing with Roger Perl­mut­ter at a biotech start­up

Roger Perl­mut­ter is bring­ing along more than a stel­lar rep­u­ta­tion from Mer­ck for his next ca­reer chap­ter in biotech.

We learned this morn­ing that Roy Baynes, his right-hand man in charge of the big de­vel­op­ment team run­ning their bliz­zard of Keytru­da stud­ies and much more, is join­ing Perl­mut­ter at Eikon Ther­a­peu­tics, where he will take up the post of ex­ec­u­tive vice pres­i­dent and chief med­ical of­fi­cer.

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