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Biotech and pharma companies strengthen their leadership teams and committees with new appointments.
Chief Operating Officer Dan Paterson has been appointed to the role of president and will lead the company while the board of directors conducts a search for a new CEO.
According to a report, GSK has bundled the products into three separate packets in order to attract regional buyers.
When Becky Fu met Brett Robb at a CRISPR conference four years ago, they were both deeply involved in CRISPR. The two published a paper in March in Nature Microbiology on the subject and on Fu’s findings on the complex mechanisms of the Cpf1 nucleases, a different set of enzymes than the often-used Cas9.
In North America and across Europe, there is a growing distrust in vaccine safety. France posted the highest mistrust with one-third of people polled.
The advent of increasingly more mainstream and affordable genetic testing enables powerful genetic research – but that power is directly associated with the strength and diversity of the database of genetic information available.
Akelos Inc., a biotechnology company currently developing and commercializing a novel, non-opioid anti-hyperalgesic drug to treat chronic and neuropathic pain, adds Dr. Roger Frechette to its Executive Team as Director of Operations & Business Development.
Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. announced it has promoted Erik Harris to Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer, effective June 11, 2019.
Generally speaking, many life science companies in the United States complain that there is a lack of skilled people to draw on. That could partially be due to, as numerous studies have shown, a lack of STEM graduates from the U.S.
Chinese companies that gain toeholds in the U.S. are poaching executives from U.S. companies who have significant clinical and regulatory experience.
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