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PEOPLE Gene therapy developer Prevail Therapeutics (New York) has where he served in the same position. He also announced the appointment of Francois Nader (left) to its board served as chief commercial officer at ChanTest, of directors. Nader was president, CEO and executive director now part of Charles River Laboratories. of NPS Pharma from 2008 until 2015, when the company was acquired by Shire. Before joining NPS Pharma, he was a venture Amit Patel has been elected to the board of direc- partner at Care Capital. tors of privately held Calyptus Pharmaceuticals “I am honored to join the board of Prevail Therapeutics,” (Princeton, NJ, USA). Patel has 20 years of said Nader. “The Prevail team has already made great progress healthcare industry experience, most recently in developing potential treatments for Parkinson’s disease and serving as senior vice president and president other neurodegenerative diseases, and I look forward to partnering with the team to help at Capsugel. Prior to Capsugel, he worked at Dr. accelerate important therapeutic advances for patients with these devastating illnesses.” Reddy’s Laboratories, where he held the posi- tions of executive vice president & head, North Gastrointestinal disease treatment developer CEO of Immunocore, as non-executive chair- America, and senior vice president & head, global Ritter Pharmaceuticals (Los Angeles) has man of the board, succeeding Trevor Nichols, corporate development & strategic planning. appointed John W. Beck as CFO. He served in who has acted as chairman since January 2014. the same position at Ardea Biosciences before Nichols will remain on the board as a non- Yaping Shou has been appointed chief medi- it was acquired by AstraZeneca. executive director. cal officer of clinical stage immuno-oncology company Trillium Therapeutics (Toronto). She Clinical-stage biopharma company Eloxx Aclaris Therapeutics (Wayne, PA, USA) has joins Trillium from Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Pharmaceuticals (Waltham, MA, USA) has appointed David Gordon chief medical offi- where she was most recently executive medi- appointed Neil Belloff executive vice president, cer. Gordon was most recently senior vice cal director. Prior to joining Takeda, Shou held general counsel and corporate secretary. Belloff president and head of dermatology R&D at several clinical oncology positions at Novartis joins the company from Celgene, where he GlaxoSmithKline, where he served for the Pharmaceuticals and GlaxoSmithKline. served as senior corporate counsel since 2011. past 18 years. Orbis Biosciences (Kansas City, MO, USA) has Kronos Bio (Cambridge, MA, USA) has named Compugen (Holon, Israel) has announced named Karl Strohmeier chief licensing offi- Norbert Bischofberger as president and CEO the appointment of Gilead Halevy, founding cer and Brad Spitz vice president of business after completing an $18-million seed financing. member and general partner of Kedma Capital development. The two executives bring over Prior to joining Kronos, Bischofberger spent 30 Partners; Kinneret Livnat Savitzky, interim five decades of experience in the pharmaceu- years at Gilead Sciences, most recently serving CEO and board member of FutuRx; and tical industry. Strohmeier was previously a as executive vice president, R&D and CSO. Sanford (Sandy) Zweifach, founder and CEO senior director at Teva Pharmaceuticals. Spitz of Nuvelution Pharma, to its board of directors. was most recently US vice president of sales for Richard Brudnick has been appointed chief ANGLE North America. business officer and head of strategy at Codiak Axcella Health (Cambridge, MA, USA) has BioSciences (Cambridge, MA, USA). He was announced the appointment of William Joseph R. Swedish previously executive vice president of busi- (Bill) Hinshaw as president and CEO. (left) has joined the ness development and alliance management Hinshaw has nearly three decades of global board of directors of at Bioverativ, a company he helped found in pharmaceutical experience and was most cell-based medicines 2016, before its acquisition by Sanofi in March. recently executive vice president and head of developer Mesoblast US oncology at Novartis. (Melbourne). Swedish Gavin Corcoran has joined Axovant Sciences has over two decades (Basel, Switzerland) as executive vice president Astellas (Northbrook, IL, USA) has named of healthcare leader- of R&D. He most recently served as chief medi- Nahrin Marino vice president, head of eth- ship experience, most cal officer at Allergan and previously served as ics & compliance, Americas effective July 15. recently serving as executive chairman, president chief medical officer of Actavis. In addition, Previously, Marino served as deputy gen- and CEO of Anthem. He currently serves on the Michael Hayden has been appointed as a senior eral counsel, regulatory for Astellas. Prior board of directors for IBM, CDW Corp. and scientific advisor to Axovant and chairman of the to Astellas, she worked at Dykema Gossett, Proteus Digital Health. company’s newly established scientific advisory representing corporations in pharmaceutical board. Hayden recently served as president of and medical device litigation. Nouscom (Basel, Switzerland) has named global R&D and CSO at Teva Pharmaceuticals. Adrian Woolfson chief medical officer. AnaBios (San Diego) has announced the Woolfson most recently served as global Avacta Group (Wetherby and Cambridge, appointment of Chris Mathes as chief com- clinical leader, early- and late-stage immuno- UK) has named Eliot Forster, most recently mercial officer. He joins AnaBios from Icagen, oncology/hematology at Pfizer. 666 VOLUME 36 NUMBER 7 JULY 2018 NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY.