Top UCSF sci­en­tist Shaun Cough­lin joins mi­gra­tion to Big Phar­ma, leap­ing to No­var­tis

You can count one more promi­nent aca­d­e­m­ic re­searcher who’s mak­ing the jump to Big Phar­ma.

Shaun Cough­lin is hand­ing in his old ti­tle as di­rec­tor of UC San Fran­cis­co’s Car­dio­vas­cu­lar Re­search Cen­ter in fa­vor of a new job run­ning the car­dio group for the No­var­tis In­sti­tute for Bio­med­ical Re­search in Cam­bridge, MA.

Cough­lin has been at UCSF for 33 years, but he’s re­turn­ing to some fa­mil­iar stomp­ing grounds. Cough­lin got his un­der­grad­u­ate de­gree at MIT, his MD at Har­vard Med and did his post­doc work at Mass Gen­er­al.

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