Appointment

Keep up to speed with the sector’s top executive appointments with DDW’s regular recruitment round-up. Kimryn Rathmell  has been chosen as the 17th director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), bringing her experience as leader of the Department of Medicine at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Physician-in-Chief at the Vanderbilt University Adult Hospital and […]

Biotech company Cytomos has appointed a new Non-Executive Director in a bid to help accelerate plans to brings its cell analysis technology to market.   Dr Sharon Brownlow has joined as Non-Executive Director and will play a key role in helping Cytomos bring its Dielectric Spectroscopy (CDS) platform to market. Cytomos’ CDS platform enables scientists to collect […]

Specialist pharmaceutical company Norgine has appointed Saulo Martiniano as its new Chief Operating Officer (COO).  Martiniano previously worked at L’Oréal and was responsible for leading Global Manufacturing Excellence across 38 plants that included more than 10,000 employees.  Martiniano will now be based in the UK and takes on the responsibility of overseeing Norgine’s global operations […]

It’s not unusual for such a dynamic industry to have regular shake-ups in senior leadership, especially as innovative new technologies create brand new roles. The last couple of months have seen a number of high-profile job moves in drug discovery. Dr Robert Kirby, COO and Dr Edward Stevens, CSO Metrion Biosciences Kirby has been promoted […]

It’s been another busy month for senior appointments in the drug discovery sector. David Favre, Chief Development Officer, SpliceBio Dr Favre brings more than 25 years of experience in gene therapy, immunology and drug development throughout academia and the biopharma industry. He joins SpliceBio from Innoskel, where he served as Chief Scientific Officer. Kate Woolland, […]

A round-up of the top senior appointments in the drug discovery sector over the last month. Renos Savva, Head of Innovation, Discovery Park Savva’s previous experience includes co-founding Domainex, recognised by the Financial Times in 2018 as the ‘fastest-growing drug discovery contract research organisation in Europe’, and developing and delivering the postgraduate Bio-business programme at […]

A round-up of the latest senior appointments in the drug discovery sector over the last month. Julian Collins, Jana Windt and Michiel Stork, ProBioGen Julian Collins has been appointed as Senior Vice President, Head of People & Organizational Development (P&OD) and a member of the Executive Team. Michiel Stork has taken on a role of Vice […]

The ABPI Board has confirmed that Susan Rienow, UK Country President of Pfizer, will be the next President of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI).   Rienow was appointed as ABPI Vice-President in September 2022 and will formally take up her role as President in May 2023.   As President, Rienow will lead the ABPI Board […]

There have been a number of significant appointments in the drug discovery sector over the last month. So who are the latest movers and shakers?  Amy Berrington and Montserrat Garcia-Closas, Institute of Cancer Research: Professors Amy Berrington and Montserrat Garcia-Closas have been appointed as Team Leaders at the Institute of Cancer Research’s Division of Genetics and […]

1. Antonin (Tony) de Fougerolles, Etherna  Antonin (Tony) de Fougerolles has joined the Etherna board of directors as an independent member.  He is currently the CEO of Evox Therapeutics. As founding Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) at Moderna Therapeutics, he pioneered modified mRNA.  2. Dr Xavier Jacq, Ubiquigent Ubiquigent has appointed Dr Xavier Jacq to its […]

News round-up by DDW Editor Reece Armstrong for 15-19 August. Covid booster approvals, positive results for Malaria vaccines and new CEOs are some of the stories in this week’s news round-up.  MHRA approves Moderna’s bivalent Covid booster   The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has approved an updated version of Moderna’s Covid-19 booster vaccine […]

Clinical-stage company Respira Technologies has appointed a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to the company.  Brian Quigley will take over as CEO after working as Respira’s Chief Operating Officer (COO) for the past two years.   Quigley previously worked at Altria Group for 16 years where he spent seven years as President & CEO at Altria’s […]

Biopharmaceutical company TikoMed has announced two new appointments to its Board of Directors as the company focuses on its ILB drug programme. TikoMed has appointed Tara Heitner and Pete Zorn to its Board of Directors. Tara Heitner has more than 15 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry and has been involved in the development […]

Techbio company Closed Loop Medicines has appointed two new members in support of its planned international growth.   Closed Loop Medicines appointed David Van Sickle as Non-Executive Director and Simon Ramsden as Chief Financial Officer.  Closed Loop Medicine says that the hires will help in the next stage of its growth as the company expands its […]

Biotechnology company Complement Therapeutics has appointed a new member to its board to help support the company with its development goals.   Complement Therapeutics appointed Steve Axon as in independent director to its Board of Directors who will help the company with its goals of addressing unmet needs in complement mediated diseases such as geographic atrophy due […]

News round-up by DDW’s Reece Armstrong for 20-24 June. Covid-19 vaccine development and research, gene therapies for dementia and a ‘game-changing’ treatment for HIV are some of the themes of this week’s news round-up. Moderna to set up mRNA vaccine centre in UK  Pharmaceutical company Moderna is to set-up a manufacturing and research development centre […]