Fierce Biotech April 19, 2024
Welcome to this week’s Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry. Please send the good word—or the bad—from your shop to Max Bayer or Gabrielle Masson, and we will feature it here at the end of each week.
Recursion makes big executive splash, plucking J&J’s chief data science officer
Recursion Pharmaceuticals
AI-infused drug developer Recursion Pharmaceuticals has hired Najat Khan, Ph.D., as chief commercial officer and head of R&D. She joins from Johnson & Johnson where she was chief data science officer and head of strategy and portfolio within the pharma R&D team.
It’s a major hire for the Utah-based biotech, indicative of the rising influence of artificial intelligence and machine learning...