Verdine joins WuXi venture arm

WuXi Healthcare Ventures hired Gregory Verdine as a venture partner. Verdine, a chemistry professor at Harvard University, is the co-founder of numerous biotechs, including natural products company Warp Drive Bio LLC (Cambridge, Mass.), Aileron Therapeutics Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.), which is developing stapled peptides, and Wave Life Sciences Ltd. (NASDAQ:WVE), which is focused on stereopure nucleic acid therapeutics. He was a venture partner at Third Rock Ventures. ...