Melinda Moree, the Seattle-based CEO of a group that serves as a liaison between for-profit biotech and nonprofit global health organizations, is moving on. Moree is stepping down as CEO of BIO Ventures for Global Health, a nonprofit seeks to help develop biotech innovations like drugs, vaccines and diagnostics that can be applied in poor countries where they otherwise wouldn’t be developed. Moree, who has been in the job for about two and a half years, is being replaced on Feb. 1 by Don Joseph, the organization’s chief operating officer. Moree, who had been CEO of the organization since July 2009, will stick around as a part-time executive chair of BIO Ventures for Global Health.
