Top Pfiz­er re­search ex­ec John Davis joins mi­gra­tion to biotech, lands at Ma­gen­ta as CMO

Sue Dil­lon isn’t the on­ly Big Phar­ma R&D ex­ec to make news this week af­ter mak­ing the switch to biotech. Cam­bridge, MA-based biotech stand­out Ma­gen­ta Ther­a­peu­tics has just re­cruit­ed Pfiz­er vet John Davis as their new chief med­ical of­fi­cer.

Davis had been the se­nior vice pres­i­dent and head of ear­ly clin­i­cal de­vel­op­ment at Pfiz­er. He ear­li­er com­plet­ed a stint at Bax­al­ta af­ter spend­ing 10 years on the fac­ul­ty at UC San Fran­cis­co.

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