Vir CSO de­part­ing next month to be Al­tos CMO; Bob Dug­gan’s Sum­mit Ther­a­peu­tics and the FDA try to make head­way

Hal Bar­ron’s an­ti-ag­ing biotech has added Vir Biotech­nol­o­gy CSO Her­bert “Skip” Vir­gin to its ranks. At the Rick Klaus­ner-found­ed Al­tos Labs, Vir­gin will lead the Al­tos In­sti­tute of Med­i­cine as med­ical chief.

The ex­ec­u­tive will leave Vir at the end of Au­gust af­ter near­ly five years at the biotech work­ing on treat­ments for Covid-19, HIV, HBV and flu, the San Fran­cis­co com­pa­ny said Thurs­day morn­ing.

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