Mi­cro­cap Aridis re­cruits Take­da vet Paul Mendel­man to steer late-stage an­ti­body pro­grams in in­fec­tious dis­eases

A month ago one of Aridis Phar­ma’s an­ti-in­fec­tive an­ti­bod­ies flunked a Phase II test in ven­ti­la­tor-as­so­ci­at­ed pneu­mo­nia, forc­ing the team to aban­don the pro­gram but leav­ing chief med­ical of­fi­cer Wolf­gang Dum­mer in charge of comb­ing through the da­ta for any in­sight. But now that re­spon­si­bil­i­ty will fall on Paul Mendel­man, who’s step­ping in­to the role on an in­ter­im ca­pac­i­ty as Dum­mer leaves for per­son­al rea­sons.

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