Al­ny­lam adds a slate of new ex­ec­u­tives; Thomas In­sel is leav­ing Ver­i­ly; Akari CEO Gur Rosh­walb placed on leave

→ Scott Got­tlieb was sworn in as Amer­i­ca’s 23rd Com­mis­sion­er of Food and Drugs yes­ter­day.

Hon­ored to swear in Dr. Scott Got­tlieb as the @US_FDA Com­mis­sion­er this morn­ing. We are ex­cit­ed to have him join the @HHS­Gov fam­i­ly! pic.twit­ter.com/ABl838Qi­IF

— Tom Price, M.D. (@SecPriceMD) May 11, 2017

→ RNAi biotech Al­ny­lam named a slate of new ap­point­ments in­clud­ing Man­meet Soni as CFO, who ar­rives by way of Ari­ad and Phar­ma­cyclics; There­sa Heg­gie as se­nior vice pres­i­dent, head of Eu­rope and Cana­da; Pe­ter Smith, se­nior vice pres­i­dent, ear­ly de­vel­op­ment; plus for­mer Cel­gene and BIO ex­ec­u­tive Alan Eisen­berg as vice pres­i­dent, glob­al pub­lic pol­i­cy and gov­ern­ment re­la­tions.

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