Top Scripps sci­en­tist and biotech co-founder makes an abrupt — and un­ex­plained — ex­it

The sci­en­tif­ic founder at the new­ly pub­lic biotech Syn­thorx has abrupt­ly left La Jol­la’s pres­ti­gious Scripps Re­search. But we don’t know why.

The San Diego Union-Tri­bune re­port­ed that star sci­en­tist Floyd Romes­berg de­part­ed in mid-June af­ter he had been cleared of a Ti­tle IX in­ves­ti­ga­tion re­gard­ing pos­si­ble sex­u­al dis­crim­i­na­tion. Scripps told the lo­cal news­pa­per that they had con­duct­ed a thor­ough in­ves­ti­ga­tion and found no wrong­do­ing.

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