Paul Moore

→ Zymeworks used a poi­son pill ma­neu­ver a cou­ple weeks ago as the coun­ter­punch to a $773 mil­lion takeover bid by All Blue Fal­cons, and new CEO Ken­neth Gal­braith isn’t done piec­ing the staff to­geth­er ei­ther.

Paul Moore will end his 14-year as­so­ci­a­tion with Macro­Gen­ics, where he was VP, cell bi­ol­o­gy, and im­munol­o­gy, and step up to the plate as CSO of Zymeworks on Ju­ly 18. Tony Polveri­no, the chief sci­en­tist who pre­ced­ed Moore, didn’t es­cape the sweep­ing changes that were en­act­ed by Gal­braith in Jan­u­ary, when half the C-suite and 25% of the staff over­all re­ceived pink slips. Neil Klom­pas and Neil Joseph­son were named COO and CMO, re­spec­tive­ly, and Chris As­tle took over as CFO a month lat­er.

Pearl Huang

→ Pearl Huang — one of our Women in Bio­phar­ma R&D hon­orees from 2020 — is a CEO again, this time at Cam­bridge, UK, pro­tein degra­da­tion biotech Dunad Ther­a­peu­tics. Huang was Roche’s head of ther­a­peu­tic modal­i­ties un­til 2018 and be­came CEO of Flag­ship’s ex­oneur­al bi­ol­o­gy com­pa­ny Cyg­nal Ther­a­peu­tics a short time lat­er. When Flag­ship com­bined Inzen and Cyg­nal to form Sonata Ther­a­peu­tics in mid-May, Volk­er Her­rmann was named chief ex­ec­u­tive, leav­ing Huang to ex­plore oth­er op­tions. She lands at Dunad af­ter No­var­tis inked a $1.3+ bil­lion deal with the start­up in No­vem­ber 2021.

Michael Sum­n­er

→ Hop­ing to re­vi­tal­ize a pipeline that has yet to see an FDA ap­proval in its 20-plus year his­to­ry, In­ovio has tapped Michael Sum­n­er as CMO, join­ing new chief ex­ec­u­tive Jacque­line Shea. For the last nine years, Sum­n­er was med­ical chief for Swedish biotech Orexo, and he’s worked in med­ical af­fairs for Shire and No­vo Nordisk. A month ago, Shea took over for Joseph Kim af­ter In­ovio hit mul­ti­ple pot­holes with its Covid-19 vac­cine, lead­ing to a dif­fer­ent ap­proach with INO-4800 as a het­erol­o­gous boost­er.

James Cullem

→ There’s a lot to sift through at the US-Dan­ish can­cer biotech Al­lar­i­ty Ther­a­peu­tics, start­ing with CEO Steve Carche­di, who has yield­ed the top spot to CBO James Cullem on an in­ter­im ba­sis. Cullem had been SVP of cor­po­rate de­vel­op­ment for sev­en years be­fore as­cend­ing to the role of busi­ness chief in De­cem­ber. CFO Jens Knud­sen is al­so out, and Al­lar­i­ty has lined up di­rec­tor of fi­nan­cial re­port­ing Joan Brown to pinch-hit. Mean­while, Thomas Jensen — who co-found­ed the com­pa­ny in 2004 — will now be SVP of in­vestor re­la­tions af­ter two years as SVP, in­for­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy. Al­lar­i­ty’s board “ex­pects to name a per­ma­nent CEO and CFO in H1 2023,” ac­cord­ing to the press re­lease.

John Snis­arenko

→ The un­re­lent­ing job cuts in the in­dus­try haven’t spared hit eye dis­ease-fo­cused Oys­ter Point Phar­ma, which will scrap about 50 em­ploy­ees as part of its new “stream­lin­ing plan.” Changes have fil­tered in­to the se­nior lead­er­ship too as Genen­tech alum John Snis­arenko — the chief com­mer­cial of­fi­cer since 2019 — heads in­to re­tire­ment, while sales and com­mer­cial op­er­a­tions VP Michael Camp­bell be­comes head of com­mer­cial. Else­where at Oys­ter Point, Daniel Lochn­er will al­so tack­le the role of CBO in ad­di­tion to his CFO du­ties.

Vivek Shar­ma

→ In Oc­to­ber 2021, The Car­lyle Group jumped on the AI band­wag­on along­side the in­vest­ment arms of Pfiz­er, Mer­ck, Am­gen and McKesson with the $430 mil­lion buy­out of cloud-based Saa­ma Tech­nolo­gies. Saa­ma’s found­ing CEO Suresh Kat­ta has now stepped aside af­ter 25 years and will tran­si­tion to the role of chair­man emer­i­tus as Vivek Shar­ma takes con­trol at the Cal­i­for­nia AI play­er. Shar­ma has been a chief ex­ec­u­tive be­fore with De­ci­sion Re­sources Group, Pi­ra­mal Phar­ma So­lu­tions and more re­cent­ly, Adare Phar­ma So­lu­tions. In ad­di­tion to his new ti­tle at Saa­ma, Kat­ta will al­so be an ad­vi­sor for Car­lyle.

Tra­cy Cun­ning­ham

→ Fir­ing back at the FDA with a for­mal dis­pute res­o­lu­tion re­quest for its epi­der­mol­y­sis bul­losa drug Fil­su­vez, Am­ryt Phar­ma has pro­mot­ed Tra­cy Cun­ning­ham to CMO. Cun­ning­ham is a Sanofi alum who had been clin­i­cal lead for selume­tinib — now mar­ket­ed as Kosel­u­go — with As­traZeneca be­fore mak­ing her way to Am­ryt as head of de­vel­op­ment in 2020. Ear­li­er, Cun­ning­ham held med­ical af­fairs roles at No­var­tis and GSK.

Mark Sumer­ay

→ As for Cun­ning­ham’s pre­de­ces­sor, he on­ly has to switch out a few let­ters: Mark Sumer­ay has left Am­ryt to be­come CMO at Amolyt Phar­ma, a French-Amer­i­can en­docrine dis­ease biotech that filled the pig­gy bank with an $80 mil­lion Se­ries B round in Sep­tem­ber 2021. Be­fore his six years as CMO at Am­ryt, Sumer­ay was the med­ical chief for Aege­ri­on Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals and VP, US car­dio­vas­cu­lar and meta­bol­ic med­ical af­fairs with Bris­tol My­ers Squibb.

Rami­ta Tan­don

→ To ac­com­mo­date its en­try in­to the clin­i­cal tri­al busi­ness, as re­port­ed from Cannes last week, Wal­greens has lined up a string of hires, with chief clin­i­cal tri­als of­fi­cer Rami­ta Tan­don bat­ting lead­off. Oth­er ap­point­ments in­clude: Kendal Whit­lock (head of dig­i­tal op­ti­miza­tion, re­al world ev­i­dence clin­i­cal tri­als), John Camp­bell (head of de­cen­tral­ized clin­i­cal tri­als), Liam Wood (head of prod­uct, clin­i­cal tri­als) and Adam Sam­son (head of clin­i­cal de­liv­ery op­er­a­tions, clin­i­cal tri­als).

→ Thier­ry Guil­laudeux has been pro­mot­ed to CSO of Seat­tle-based Kine­ta, which merged with Tony Coles’ Parkin­son’s play Yu­man­i­ty in ear­ly June. A long­time pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Rennes 1 in France, Guil­laudeux came to Kine­ta as SVP, im­muno-on­col­o­gy in 2019 and has helped de­vel­op its im­munother­a­py can­di­date KVA12.1, an IgG1 mon­o­clon­al an­ti­body.

Shirley Liu

→ Cam­bridge, MA-based GV20 Ther­a­peu­tics is lock­ing in Shirley Liu as CEO and bring­ing in duo Steven Lan­dau and Ying Gong as CMO and CBO, re­spec­tive­ly. Liu co-found­ed GV20 in 2016, hav­ing pre­vi­ous­ly served as pro­fes­sor of bio­sta­tis­tics and com­pu­ta­tion­al bi­ol­o­gy at the Dana-Far­ber Can­cer In­sti­tute and Har­vard TH Chan School of Pub­lic Health. Mean­while, Lan­dau for­mer­ly ran op­er­a­tions as CMO at Shape Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals and Ten­sha Ther­a­peu­tics, while Gong most re­cent­ly served as project team leader for on­col­o­gy at Genen­tech.

Er­ic Sul­li­van

→ Er­ic Sul­li­van has been ap­point­ed CFO at next-gen T cell out­fit TCR² Ther­a­peu­tics. Sul­li­van, a blue­bird and Mer­ri­mack vet, served as pres­i­dent, CFO and COO at Triplet Ther­a­peu­tics, and has al­so served as SVP at Gem­i­ni Ther­a­peu­tics and On­corus pri­or to join­ing TCR², which is de­vel­op­ing its lead pro­gram ga­vo-cel in sev­er­al in­di­ca­tions.

Lin­ea As­pe­si

→ Hema­to­log­ic dis­ease biotech For­ma Ther­a­peu­tics will gain two ex­ecs on Ju­ly 11: Agustín Melián (head of R&D) left AlloVir at the end of 2021 and was the Di­ana Brainard-led biotech’s first CMO. Pri­or to this, he spent 13 years at Mer­ck and was SVP in glob­al clin­i­cal de­vel­op­ment and med­ical sci­ences. Lin­ea As­pe­si (chief hu­man re­sources of­fi­cer) is a Sanofi Gen­zyme alum who held the same po­si­tion at San­iona and led HR at So­bi.

→ Par­a­digm Bio­phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals has hand­ed over the CEO hat to Mar­co Polizzi. Pri­or to his new role, Polizzi was the founder and CEO of Oakrum Phar­ma. Polizzi has had a long ca­reer span­ning roles at Casper Phar­ma (EVP com­mer­cial op­er­a­tions and busi­ness de­vel­op­ment), San­doz (head of sales and mar­ket­ing in­sti­tu­tion­al), Mallinck­rodt (VP/GM) and Te­va.

Pe­ter Con­don

→ San Diego-based RNA play­er DTx Phar­ma has locked in Pe­ter Con­don as CBO. From 2018-21, Con­don was head of busi­ness de­vel­op­ment and al­liance man­age­ment at Gos­samer Bio, and af­ter 10 years at Genen­tech, he held the role of ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor, busi­ness de­vel­op­ment at Alex­ion and Google’s an­ti-ag­ing up­start Cal­i­co.

James Tay­lor

→ So­sei Hep­tares CBO James Tay­lor has left to fill the same po­si­tion at Achilles Ther­a­peu­tics, a T cell play­er that went pub­lic on the strength of a $175.5 mil­lion IPO in the spring of 2021. (Re­mem­ber those?) Tay­lor was al­so a se­nior di­rec­tor of busi­ness de­vel­op­ment at GSK and held posts at As­traZeneca, Sum­mit Ther­a­peu­tics and Cel­l­zome. Achilles has al­so added Cass­ian Yee, a pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Texas MD An­der­son Can­cer Cen­ter, to its sci­en­tif­ic ad­vi­so­ry board.

Fletch­er Payne

→ We told you about Jotin Marango leav­ing Ap­tose for Ike­na On­col­o­gy in April, and this week Fletch­er Payne has re­placed Marango as CFO. Payne heads to Ap­tose af­ter near­ly three years as fi­nance chief at Syapse, and he’s al­so been CFO at Plexxikon, Cy­tomX and the now-shut­tered Cat­a­lyst Bio­sciences. Ap­tose’s lead as­set, HM43239, is in a Phase I/II tri­al for re­lapsed or re­frac­to­ry acute myeloid leukemia.

Gail Cawk­well

→ Now fo­cused on in­di­ca­tions like rheuma­toid arthri­tis and hidradeni­tis sup­pu­ra­ti­va with zunseme­tinib af­ter mis­fir­ing in alope­cia area­ta with ATI-502, Aclaris Ther­a­peu­tics has se­lect­ed Gail Cawk­well as CMO. Cawk­well, the ex-CMO and spe­cial ad­vi­sor to the board of di­rec­tors at Pur­due Phar­ma, spent the last four years as the SVP, med­ical af­fairs, safe­ty & phar­ma­covig­i­lance for In­ter­cept, and she al­so worked on Xel­janz in her 14 years with Pfiz­er. Cawk­well’s pre­de­ces­sor, David Gor­don, stepped aside at Aclaris on Jan. 7.

Paulette Dil­lon

→ Celli­no’s “GMP-in-a-box” idea made a be­liev­er out of Leaps by Bay­er, lead­ing the $80 mil­lion Se­ries A in Jan­u­ary. Fast for­ward to this week, where Celli­no has named Ab­hi­jit Kulka­rni as COO and Paulette Dil­lon as CBO. Kulka­rni had led the Neu­ro­mod­u­la­tion Tech­nol­o­gy De­vel­op­ment Cen­ter at Medtron­ic, while Dil­lon co-found­ed and was SVP of cor­po­rate de­vel­op­ment at re­cent­ly down­sized Atre­ca. “Their vi­sion is to be a cell man­u­fac­tur­ing foundry, where you can pro­duce tar­get­ed cells at a frac­tion of the cost,” Jür­gen Eck­hardt, the head of Leaps by Bay­er, said of Celli­no.

Siob­han Nolan Mangi­ni

→ NGM Bio­phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals — which has col­lab­o­rat­ed with Mer­ck — has an­nounced that its CFO Siob­han Nolan Mangi­ni will be tak­ing over as pres­i­dent on top of her cur­rent du­ties. Mangi­ni joined NGM in Ju­ly 2016 and hailed from Cast­light Health, where she was pres­i­dent and CFO. Ad­di­tion­al­ly, William Rieflin, NGM’s ex­ec­u­tive chair­man and for­mer CEO, is tran­si­tion­ing to the role of chair­man on NGM’s board of di­rec­tors.

Christo­pher Hoppe

→ Peer Re­view has learned that 64x Bio, the George Church gene ther­a­py man­u­fac­tur­ing start­up run by a 20 un­der 40 hon­oree from this year (Lex Rovn­er), has in­stalled Christo­pher Hoppe as head of op­er­a­tions. Hoppe joins from Nek­tar, where he was clin­i­cal, op­er­a­tional, and strate­gic ad­vance­ment lead for the biotech’s cy­tokine port­fo­lio.

→ Scott Bat­ty has joined au­toim­mune dis­ease biotech Ar­tax Bio­phar­ma as CMO. Bat­ty, the ex-glob­al di­rec­tor of med­ical af­fairs for the be­lat­a­cept im­muno­sup­pres­sion pro­gram at Bris­tol My­ers, had pre­vi­ous­ly been VP of reg­u­la­to­ry and sci­en­tif­ic af­fairs for CTI. He has al­so served as VP of glob­al med­ical af­fairs for Gen­zyme’s trans­plant and on­col­o­gy group.

Lau­na As­peslet

→ Lau­na As­peslet is set­tling in as COO of He­p­i­on Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals, a New Jer­sey biotech us­ing AI to de­vel­op ther­a­pies for NASH and he­pa­to­cel­lu­lar car­ci­no­ma. As­peslet had helmed Trans­la­tion­al Re­search in On­col­o­gy, a clin­i­cal re­search or­ga­ni­za­tion out of Ed­mon­ton with of­fices in Paris and Mon­te­v­ideo, Uruguay, since 2015. She vault­ed to COO of an­oth­er Ed­mon­ton-based com­pa­ny, Isotech­ni­ka Phar­ma, be­fore it was sold to Au­rinia nine years ago.

In oth­er He­p­i­on news, cor­po­rate strat­e­gy ex­ecs Anand Red­di (Ad­verum) and Kaouthar Lbiati (Cy­tovia) have earned their seats on the board of di­rec­tors.

→ Der­mi­ra vet Luis Peña and his crew at Evom­mune have wel­comed Greg Moss as chief cor­po­rate strat­e­gy and le­gal of­fi­cer; he’ll al­so jug­gle the roles of cor­po­rate sec­re­tary and chief com­pli­ance of­fi­cer at the in­flam­ma­to­ry dis­ease biotech. Moss comes to Evom­mune af­ter a decade at Sanofi sub­sidiary Kad­mon, where he was gen­er­al coun­sel & cor­po­rate sec­re­tary, chief com­pli­ance of­fi­cer. This isn’t the first Kad­mon alum to be­come part of Evom­mune’s lead­er­ship: Ex-chief ac­count­ing of­fi­cer Kyle Carv­er has been CFO at Evom­mune since March.

Julie Per­son

→ Per­son to Per­son: Na­tal­ie Holles is grad­u­al­ly flesh­ing out her team at Third Har­mon­ic Bio with a new CFO (Robert Ho), CSO (Adri­an Ray) and CMO (Ed­ward Con­ner). This week Julie Per­son, who comes from ARCH’s “Re­al­ly Big Neu­ro­science Com­pa­ny” named Neumo­ra, is on board as chief ad­min­is­tra­tive of­fi­cer. Per­son spent a year as VP of hu­man re­sources at Sang­amo af­ter her time as glob­al head of tal­ent man­age­ment at Shire, and then had a brief run at Holles’ for­mer com­pa­ny, Au­dentes, pri­or to her ap­point­ment as Neumo­ra’s chief peo­ple of­fi­cer.

→ Pe­ter Led­dy has made his way to San Diego-based Mar­a­vai Life­Sciences as chief ad­min­is­tra­tive of­fi­cer. Pri­or to join­ing Mar­a­vai, Led­dy had such roles as chief hu­man re­sources of­fi­cer at Berke­ley Lights, chief peo­ple of­fi­cer at do­sist and EVP, glob­al hu­man re­sources and cor­po­rate in­tegri­ty at Nu­va­sive.

An­drea Paul

→ The lead­er­ship changes at Zen­tal­is haven’t de­cel­er­at­ed as the Pfiz­er part­ner brings in An­drea Paul as gen­er­al coun­sel and cor­po­rate sec­re­tary on Aug. 1. Paul, who filled le­gal roles at Mo­men­ta and Ake­bia Ther­a­peu­tics, had re­cent­ly been gen­er­al coun­sel and cor­po­rate sec­re­tary for a year at Log­icBio. Back in May, Kim­ber­ly Black­well suc­ceed­ed An­tho­ny Sun as Zen­tal­is’ CEO, while co-founder Cam Gal­lagher was el­e­vat­ed to pres­i­dent.

Bren­dan St. Amant

→ Syn­thet­ic bi­ol­o­gy play­er and Roche IBD part­ner Syn­log­ic has pro­mot­ed Bren­dan St. Amant to gen­er­al coun­sel and cor­po­rate sec­re­tary. Named VP, head of le­gal at Syn­log­ic in Ju­ly 2021, St. Amant was se­nior coun­sel at Ver­tex be­fore mov­ing to the now-de­funct Flag­ship com­pa­ny Ohana Bio­sciences as VP of le­gal in 2019.

→ What’s new at NeuBase? COO William Mann is tack­ing on the ti­tle of pres­i­dent to his cur­rent du­ties. Pri­or to his cur­rent stint, Mann was CEO and pres­i­dent of Helsinn Ther­a­peu­tics and held roles at Sap­phire Ther­a­peu­tics and No­var­tis.

Amol Ketkar

→ Lon­don-based Res­o­lu­tion Ther­a­peu­tics is bring­ing aboard Amol Ketkar as chief de­vel­op­ment of­fi­cer. Ketkar had a 21-year gig at GSK, most re­cent­ly serv­ing as VP, prod­uct de­vel­op­ment and sup­ply for the com­pa­ny’s cell and gene ther­a­py CMC group.

→ El­e­var Ther­a­peu­tics out of Salt Lake City is bring­ing in some new faces with the ap­point­ments of Jan Van Tornout as CMO and Gor­don Schoo­ley as chief reg­u­la­to­ry of­fi­cer. Van Tornout pre­vi­ous­ly served as CMO of Tyme Tech­nolo­gies while Schoo­ley jumps aboard af­ter a sev­en-year run with Be­yond­Spring.

→ Peer Re­view has been in­formed that Cam­bridge, MA medtech Cog­ni­to Ther­a­peu­tics has en­list­ed Steven Max­im as di­rec­tor of man­u­fac­tur­ing. Max­im owned the same ti­tle at Ave­dro (pur­chased by Glaukos in 2019) and has fur­ther man­u­fac­tur­ing ex­pe­ri­ence from IPG Med­ical and Palo­mar Med­ical Tech­nolo­gies.

Fa­heem Has­nain

→ Gos­samer Bio founder, CEO and chair­man Fa­heem Has­nain is adding an­oth­er board ap­point­ment to his ré­sumé with his lat­est chair­man stint at Sling Ther­a­peu­tics. Cur­rent­ly, Has­nain sits on the board of Ku­ra On­col­o­gy and serves as chair­man of the board for As­pen Neu­ro­science, Mi­rati Ther­a­peu­tics and SEN­TÉ.

→ With its NDA for va­morolone get­ting shelved for four to six months be­cause of con­tract man­u­fac­tur­ing hur­dles, Swiss biotech San­thera has named Thomas Meier chair­man of the board, re­plac­ing El­mar Schnee on Thurs­day. Meier, the chief ex­ec­u­tive at San­thera from 2011-19, has been a board mem­ber since 2017 and is man­ag­ing part­ner at Viopas Ven­ture Con­sult­ing in Zurich.

Tom­my Thomp­son

→ For­mer HHS Sec­re­tary and Wis­con­sin Gov. Tom­my Thomp­son has been named Covid-19 spe­cial con­sul­tant to CEO Hen­ry Ji at Sor­ren­to Ther­a­peu­tics. The 80-year-old Thomp­son was re­cent­ly at his al­ma mater as in­ter­im pres­i­dent of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Wis­con­sin Sys­tem from Ju­ly 2020 to March 2022.

→ Strik­ing a $1.25 bil­lion Gavre­to deal with Roy­al­ty Phar­ma and a sep­a­rate pact with Sixth Street, Blue­print Med­i­cines has re­served space for Habib Dable on to the board of di­rec­tors. Dable had a 22-year ca­reer at Bay­er be­fore his CEO stint at Ac­celeron, which was sold to Mer­ck last fall for $11.5 bil­lion.

Meenu Kar­son

→ Meenu Kar­son has suc­ceed­ed Ken­neth Fong as chair of the board at Apex­i­gen, which is merg­ing with Brook­line Cap­i­tal Ac­qui­si­tion Corp. de­spite a bat­tered mar­ket. The ex-Pro­teosta­sis Ther­a­peu­tics chief is al­so on the board of di­rec­tors at Fore Bio­ther­a­peu­tics.

Carsten Brunn

→ Sur­face On­col­o­gy is wel­com­ing Carsten Brunn to its ranks by pulling out a seat for the Se­lec­ta CEO and pres­i­dent on its board of di­rec­tors. Brunn for­mer­ly served in lead­er­ship roles at Bay­er (pres­i­dent of phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals for the Amer­i­c­as re­gion), Eli Lil­ly, No­var­tis, Basilea and Bausch + Lomb. Brunn cur­rent­ly sits on the board of BIO.

→ Led by GSK alum Jack Bai­ley, Cosela mak­er G1 Ther­a­peu­tics has added Jacks Lee to the board of di­rec­tors. Af­ter 19 years at Sanofi, Lee has been with Mer­ck since 2007 and is the phar­ma gi­ant’s SVP, man­u­fac­tur­ing & sup­ply.

Di­ane Seimetz

→ Chaired by for­mer HHS Sec­re­tary and ex-Kansas Gov. Kath­leen Se­be­lius, Lau­ra Nikla­son-led Hu­ma­cyte has added Bio­phar­ma Ex­cel­lence co-founder and for­mer CEO Di­ane Seimetz to the board of di­rec­tors. Seimetz al­so serves on the board at Cu­mu­lus On­col­o­gy.

→ Ax­el-Sven Malkomes and Don­ald Bergstrom are the newest ad­di­tions to the board of di­rec­tors at Cel­lec­tis. Malkomes, a Bar­clays vet, was CFO and CBO of Medi­gene from 2019 un­til the end of March. Bergstorm has been a board ob­serv­er at Cel­lec­tis since No­vem­ber and is head of R&D at Re­lay Ther­a­peu­tics, which took the cov­er off its in­ter­im da­ta for RLY-4008 in pa­tients with bile duct can­cer this week.

Tama­ra Joseph

→ UK-based Gen­flow Bio­sciences is swap­ping out some of its board mem­bers and trad­ing them in for Tama­ra Joseph (chief le­gal of­fi­cer at Spero Ther­a­peu­tics) and Guy-Charles Fan­neau de la Horie (for­mer chief ex­ec­u­tive at Eu­ronext Growth). Joseph and Fan­neau de la Horie suc­ceed Gabrielle Sil­ver and An­drew Scott, who are step­ping down.

→ Ay­tu Bio­Phar­ma is pulling Vi­vian Liu on­to its board of di­rec­tors. Liu cur­rent­ly serves as head of cor­po­rate af­fairs for PRE­MIA Hold­ings and pre­vi­ous­ly held the ti­tles of pres­i­dent, CEO and CFO of In­novus Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals. Ear­li­er in her ca­reer, Liu was pres­i­dent and CEO of Fas­Track Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals and NexMed.

→ Ca­li­di Bio­ther­a­peu­tics has brought on WK Al­fred Yung to its med­ical ad­vi­so­ry board. Yung is a pro­fes­sor, neu­ro-on­col­o­gy at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Texas MD An­der­son Can­cer Cen­ter and ad­vised Pres­i­dent Biden’s Can­cer Moon­shot ini­tia­tive.