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Management tracks: Vifor, Relay, I-Mab, Yumanity, Savara and more

November 20, 2019 12:18 AM UTC

Vifor Pharma Ltd. (SIX:VIFN) hired Lee Heeson as president international. Heeson, who was president of worldwide markets responsible for the inflammation and immunology franchise in all ex-U.S. markets at Celgene Corp. (NASDAQ:CELG), will also join the renal, hematologic and infectious disease company’s executive committee.

Relay Therapeutics Inc., which is developing therapies that modulate protein conformation, expanded its management team with Ben Wolf as CMO, Mrunal Phadnis as VP of clinical operations and Iain Martin as VP, drug metabolism and PK. Wolf was CMO at KSQ Therapeutics Inc.; Phadnis was executive director of clinical development in oncology and hematology at Syneos Health Inc. (NASDAQ:SYNH); and Martin was executive director in the department of PK/PD and drug metabolism at Merck & Co. Inc. (NYSE:MRK)...