Top news of the week: 18.03.2021.
Career And Jobs
Cloonan quits Sage to pursue a biopharma CEO position
Mike Cloonan is set to step down as chief operating officer of Sage Therapeutics. Cloonan is leaving to pursue a CEO position in the biopharma industry shortly after being overlooked for ...
CRISPR-Based Anti-Viral Therapy Could One Day Foil the Flu—and COVID-19
CRISPR gene-editing technology has tremendous potential for making non-heritable DNA changes that can treat or even cure a wide range of devastating disorders, from HIV to muscular ...
Bluebird bio CMO quits amid a roller coaster year and upcoming split
Bluebird bio’s chief medical officer David Davidson, M.D., is hitting the exit, though remaining as a consultant, as the biotech looks to navigate through its gene therapy issues.
Gilead, Novo Nordisk push NASH cocktail deeper into the clinic
After being encouraged by some early readouts, Gilead and Novo Nordisk are doubling down on their fatty liver R&D pact by kick-starting a midstage nonalcoholic steatohepatitis combo trial ...
In wake of biopharma mega buyouts, FTC kicks off review of industry's dealmaking
With hundreds of pharma M&A deals in the books from recent years, the Biden administration’s Federal Trade Commission is kicking off an in-depth review of its approach to biopharma M&A. The ...
Lundbeck Named to the Fortune 2021 Best Workplaces in Health Care & Biopharma List
Deerfield, Ill., March 12, 2021 – Lundbeck US, an affiliate of the global biopharmaceutical company H. Lundbeck A/S with U.S. headquarters in suburban Chicago, announced today it …
Another bluebird exec jumps ship as questions swirl over gene therapies and imminent split
On the same day that their former COO found a new job steering the ship at a biotech focused on engineering B cells, bluebird bio said goodbye to another C-suite executive. David Davidson, ...
Job: Faculty Director, Center for Biotechnology Education, Opus Partners, Baltimore, MD
The Johns Hopkins University invites nominations and applications for the position of Director of the Center for Biotechnology Education within the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences’ ...