Fierce Biotech August 30, 2024
Welcome to this week’s Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of significant leadership hirings, firings and retirings across the industry. Please send the good word—or the bad—from your shop to Darren Incorvaia or Gabrielle Masson and it will be featured here at the end of each week.
Sana Biotechnology plucks new CSO
Sana Biotechnology
Dhaval Patel, M.D., Ph.D., is joining cell engineering biotech Sana Biotechnology as its first chief scientific officer following his tenure in the same role at UCB. Patel’s career also includes 10 years at Novartis, where he most recently served as the head of research at the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research Europe, and a stint at the Duke University School of Medicine that culminated in the...