Re­Vi­ral taps Seth Het­her­ing­ton to guide up­com­ing PhI­Ia; In­cyte, Aquinox ex­ecs move to AI shop No­table Labs

→ Ox­ford, Eng­land-based vac­cine de­vel­op­er Emergex has re­cruit­ed Big Phar­ma vet Athana­sios Pa­padopou­los to be its CMO. Jump­ing from Sanofi — where he helped de­vel­op the ground­break­ing but ill-fat­ed Deng­vax­ia — Pa­padopou­los in­her­its a uni­ver­sal Fla­vivirus vac­cine can­di­date now poised for Phase I in H2 2019 and a new R&D fa­cil­i­ty for Emergex’s syn­thet­ic vac­cines.

→ Re­Vi­ral has tapped Seth Het­her­ing­ton to steer its lead RSV can­di­date in­to pe­di­atric Phase IIa tri­als. As CMO (a role he re­cent­ly held for sev­en years at Geno­cea Bio­sciences), Het­her­ing­ton will lead the biotech in nav­i­gat­ing a field full of nasty sur­pris­es, though Re­Vi­ral has rea­sons to be con­fi­dent giv­en pos­i­tive re­sults in a pre­vi­ous PhI­Ia. He will be based in the British com­pa­ny’s US of­fice.

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