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Sawyers to head AACR next year; plus Quell, CalciMedica, Bigfoot, Celyad, Praxis, Affimed and more

June 13, 2020 2:15 AM UTC

The American Association for Cancer Research elected Charles Sawyers as president; he will assume the role during AACR’s 2021 meeting, which will take place in Washington on April 9-14. Sawyers is chair of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s human oncology and pathogenesis program; a professor Cornell University; and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Regulatory T cell therapy company Quell Therapeutics Ltd. hired Nathalie Belmonte as SVP, research and translation. She was COO of Promethera Biosciences S.A...