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better treatmentsa prescription digital therapy business developing nutritional cognitive behavioral therapy to treat cardiometabolic disease, has hired Frank Kabb President and CEO effective July 5. The current CEO and company co-founder, Kevin Appelbaumwho will continue in that role until then.
Before joining Better, Karbe served as President and Chief Financial Officer of Myovant Sciences, where he oversaw the company’s growth from a private startup to a publicly traded commercial stage company with two approved and marketed products. He also served as Chief Financial Officer of Exelixis, a biopharmaceutical company.
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Bigfoot Biomedicala company dedicated to better health outcomes for people with diabetes who require insulin, has appointed Matt Rainville as Chief Commercial Officer.
Rainville previously served as vice president and general manager of global Type 2 markets for Insulet Corporation, leading the company’s Omnipod Type 2 franchise and helping expand access to insulin pumps for people with diabetes. Before joining Insulet, Rainville spent 13 years at Eli Lilly, where he held leadership roles in sales, training and development, marketing, operations and market access, contributing to the successful global launch of nine diabetes products .
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Catamaran Creaturea biotech company developing chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-NK cell therapy to treat cancer, has appointed Dr Cherry Thomas Chief Medical Officer.
Her experience in oncology clinical development also includes positions at Array BioPharma/Pfizer, Bristol Myers Squibb, Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline and Amgen. Before joining Catamaran, she was Senior Vice President of Clinical Development at Caribou Biosciences. In this role, she initiated and established Caribou’s clinical development program and brought the company’s first allogeneic CAR-T cell therapy to the clinic.
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Denver Health employment Lorena Márquez Zimmer As Chief Impact Officer, effective May 16. In her newly created role, she will help launch the Center for Equity, Diversity and Opportunity, the focal point of the organization’s anchor agency work and will have three main components:
Denver Health’s Workforce Development Center: Here, employees can enhance their professional and financial well-being through a range of resources and support services, including career paths, financial coaching, and help with skills training and development.
Office of Health Equity: The Office of Health Equity builds on existing work to address disparities in health outcomes. The office will be the focal point for organizing, prioritizing, funding and expanding health equity efforts in Denver Health.
Fair Contracting and Procurement Initiative: Through this initiative, Denver Health will increase the percentage of its annual spending to local, diverse businesses.
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Massachusetts Blue Cross Blue Shield added Jack Viscoglio As Senior Vice President of Commercial Products and Customer Solutions. Biscoglio will oversee the strategic development and ongoing execution of the company’s medical products and health engagement products.
Biscoglio joins the company from Prudential Financial as Vice President of Business Development, Partnerships and Affinity.
He has also worked for Cigna and Anthem.
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Endwick Bioa company developing first-in-class peptide drug candidates, has appointed Dr. Daniel Marks as Chief Medical Officer. Marks is a Distinguished Investigator in Cachexia, the first targeted indication for Endevica for its lead product candidate, TCMCB07. He will help guide the company through preclinical and clinical development.
He previously led the Daniel Marks Pediatric Research Laboratory at Oregon Health and Science University and Doernbecher Children’s Hospital.
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Oak Hill Creaturesa clinical-stage neonatal and rare disease treatment company developing medicines for premature infants and patients with rare autoimmune diseases, has named Tauhid Ali | as its first CEO. Ali has over 25 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry, with extensive management and leadership experience in translational research, drug development and corporate strategy.
The company has a pipeline of six clinical-stage and preclinical investigational therapies acquired and licensed from Takeda Pharmaceuticals.
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Serotoninfocused on high-throughput therapeutic multi-domain protein engineering for next-generation cell and gene therapy, has hired Chad in May as Chief Scientific Officer. In this new role, May will lead the development of Serotiny’s new therapeutic program.
He previously served as senior vice president of research and development at Maverick Therapeutics (acquired by Takeda in April 2021), where he helped develop two solid tumor-targeting conditionally active T cell engagers, TAK-186 and TAK-280, through preclinical INDs, making the study the first Human clinical trials. He also served as senior director of targeted immunotherapy at Pfizer, developing research strategy and overseeing the execution of multiple immuno-oncology programs, including T-cell engagers, antibody-drug conjugates, and monoclonal antibodies.
He also spent 9 years at ImClone Systems (acquired by Eli Lilly in 2008), leading several early stage monoclonal antibody and radioimmunotherapy programs.
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Natrathe world leader in cell-free DNA testing, named PhD.Liu Minneta Chief Medical Officer of Oncology. In this role, she will set the direction for the company’s clinical and scientific roadmap in oncology.
Before joining Natera, Liu was Professor of Oncology and Research Director of the Department of Oncology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. She also holds dual positions in the Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, and serves as co-head of the Center for Personalized Medicine’s Strategic Focus on Genomics Initiatives.
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Illumina Ventures promoted PhD.Marek Farham to the chief scientist. He previously served as a venture capital partner and entrepreneur-in-residence.Venture capital firms also hired Charles Lin as principal, and Dave Johnson as a resident entrepreneur.
Mr. Lin previously served as Vice President of Business Development and Marketing at Element Biosciences.
Johnson most recently served as founder and CEO of GigaGen, a single-cell immunogenomics platform acquired by Grifols. He also served as Chief Operating Officer at Natera, where he co-invented non-invasive prenatal diagnostics.
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transparenta company that provides health and care experiences for self-insured employers and their families, has hired Tim Rosa as Chief Marketing Officer. He previously held the same role at Fitbit, helping launch the wearable fitness and wellness product category, building the company’s marketing organization, and expanding the wearables and services business.
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MDisrupta digital health intelligence company, announced today Greg Nagy has been appointed Chief Operating Officer. In this newly created role, Nagy will lead the product and engineering teams and oversee the launch and expansion of the MDisrupt platform to enable digital health innovators to access health experts and rapidly generate the real-world performance data they need to successfully commercialize and scale them product.
He previously served as Chief Marketing Officer at Drawbridge Health and Vice President of Global Marketing at Topcon Eyecare
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document panela global innovator in providing subspecialty radiology coverage through the country’s top network of fellowship-trained radiologists, has appointed PhD.Jadeep Sohi as the new Chief Medical Officer. He succeeds DocPanel co-founder Philip Templeton, who was named chief innovation officer after serving as CMO since the company’s inception in 2016.
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medical insurance added krishna kadiara as Chief Product Officer. In this new executive role, Krishna will develop and implement Medicx Health’s product strategy and offerings.
Kadiyala previously served as Vice President of Commercial Operations, Strategy and Excellence at biotech company Seagen.
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Athena Health hired John Hoffman Luis Borgen retired as chief financial officer on April 29. He most recently served as Chief Financial Officer of Omnitracs, a fleet management and transportation technology company.
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happy healtha platform to support sustainable primary care, has hired Paul Busey As Chief Revenue Officer, Amanda Melander is Head of Marketing.
Bussi was previously Chief Revenue Officer at Rocket Lawyer. Melander was previously Head of Global Demand Generation at athenahealth, where he led various marketing functions.
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Medtronic Dr. Ashwini (Ash) Sharan has been hired as Chief Medical Officer for its Neuromodulation Operations. Sharan will play a key role in shaping the strategic direction of our innovation and clinical evidence programs, help guide physician, social and educational activities, serve as a medical advisor to the business, and engage with the medical community to identify current and future business solutions to unmet opportunities for medical needs.
Sharan currently serves as co-director and professor of neurosurgery and neurology at the Thomas Jefferson University Neurorestoration Center at Jefferson College of Medicine.
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color health added Ann Mather and louis bogan to their board.
Borgen will serve as audit chairman on Color’s board of directors, while Mather will join as an independent board member.
Mather currently chairs the audit committees of Alphabet and Netflix. Borgen most recently served as Chief Financial Officer of athenahealth. He also served as Chief Financial Officer of DaVita, Inc., a healthcare provider.
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