Pfiz­er on­col­o­gy head Liz Bar­rett jumps ship to No­var­tis as Bruno St­rig­i­ni steps aside

No­var­tis $NVS has found a suc­ces­sor to out­go­ing on­col­o­gy chief Bruno St­rig­i­ni — at Pfiz­er. Liz Bar­rett, cur­rent glob­al pres­i­dent of on­col­o­gy at Pfiz­er, has been tapped to run the show at No­var­tis.

Bar­rett has big shoes to fill. The Swiss drug­mak­er has tak­en up a large pres­ence in can­cer since hir­ing St­rig­i­ni — who’s says he’s re­tir­ing from the in­dus­try al­to­geth­er — from a se­nior Mer­ck po­si­tion in the sum­mer of 2014. Par­tic­u­lar­ly mem­o­rable are its role in spear­head­ing the first CAR-T to hit the mar­ket and the in­te­gra­tion of GSK’s on­col­o­gy port­fo­lio.

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