The un­der­dog cham­pi­on of Roche’s huge pRED group is out. John Reed is com­ing home to Amer­i­ca

John Reed’s 5-year ef­fort to re­vamp Roche’s big, un­pro­duc­tive pRED re­search group is over.

Re­cruit­ed from his po­si­tion as head of the pres­ti­gious San­ford-Burn­ham Med­ical Re­search In­sti­tute in La Jol­la, CA, Reed’s job was to bind up the wounds and ral­ly pRED af­ter a ma­jor re­or­ga­ni­za­tion that led Roche to sev­er its sprawl­ing cam­pus in Nut­ley, NJ. To­day, Roche CEO Sev­erin Schwan said he was out, leav­ing for “per­son­al rea­sons” and re­turn­ing to the US.

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