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The San Francisco Business Times and the Silicon Valley Business Journal pulled together to create a list of the Best Places to Work in the Bay Area. Hitting the list at number 23 for large companies is biotechnology company Amyris.
The difference between the salaries paid to top executives and the median income earned by rank and file employees has been a sore subject for many years and has served as a wedge political issue in recent elections.
The chief executive officer and two associates of Cambridge, Massachusetts-based PixarBio were arrested yesterday and charged with securities fraud.
Urovant Sciences has been busy the past few weeks. In March the company initiated a Phase III trial for an overactive bladder treatment, strengthened its management team and established a U.S. headquarters in Irvine, California.
Sanofi announced that Elias Zerhouni, head of Global Research and Development, is retiring on June 30. The company has appointed John Reed to replace him as of July 1.
After nearly a year without a permanent chief executive officer Advaxis, Inc. has a new hand on the wheel. This morning the company announced Kenneth A. Berlin will take over the helm of the company as president and CEO effective immediately.
A pioneer in CAR-T therapies has been named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world for 2018.
Novartis announced that John Tsai, formerly of Amgen, is joining the company as Head of Global Drug Development and chief medical officer.
Badrul Chowdhury, director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER)’s Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Rheumatology Products, has left the agency to take a position as senior vice president of research development at AstraZeneca and MedImmune.
Sangamo Therapeutics recently filed a notice with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) describing a data security breach. The incident underlines what appears to be a trend of cyber thieves attacking the biopharma industry.
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