Pfiz­er spin­out woos Ot­su­ka vet Ray­mond Sanchez to lead CNS pipeline work; Joe An­der­son re­turns to Ar­ix helm

→ Four months af­ter plop­ping it­self down in the cen­ter of the neu­ro­sciences field with a pipeline from Pfiz­er and $350 mil­lion in launch cash from Bain Cap­i­tal, Cerev­el Ther­a­peu­tics has re­cruit­ed a sea­soned cen­tral ner­vous sys­tem drug de­vel­op­er to be­come its CMO. Ray­mond Sanchez, who jumps from Ot­su­ka, is tasked with shep­herd­ing Cerev­el’s Parkin­son’s (dopamine D1 ag­o­nist) and epilep­sy (GA­BA A pos­i­tive mod­u­la­tor) pro­grams in­to Phase III. At the Japan­ese phar­ma, Sanchez over­saw CNS work at Avanir among oth­er re­spon­si­bil­i­ties.

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