Prakash Raman has joined venture capital firm Flagship Pioneering in the newly created role of chief business development officer. Raman comes to Cambridge, MA-based Flagship from the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR), where he was vice president and global head of business development and licensing. Flagship’s portfolio companies include epigenetics medicines developer Omega Therapeutics […]

Todd Pope, president and CEO of TransEnterix (NYSE American: TRXC) since 2008, has stepped down. The Research Triangle Park, NC-based surgical robotics company promoted Anthony Fernando to take Pope’s place. Fernando had been TransEnterix’s chief operating officer and chief technology officer. Pope will continue to advise the company to help with the transition of his […]

Danish diabetes giant Novo Nordisk took another step this week in its efforts to establish a presence in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, or NASH, a metabolic disorder closely related to diabetes that is anticipated to become the leading cause of liver transplants in the US in coming years. The company Thursday announced it had inked a deal […]

Ashley Winslow is joining Atlanta, GA-based Odylia Therapeutics, a nonprofit organization that aims to accelerate the development of gene therapies for people with inherited retinal disease, as its chief scientific officer. Most recently she was the senior director of portfolio development and translational research at the Orphan Disease Center at the University of Pennsylvania; she […]

Women in medicine earn about 20 percent less than men. That is a problem for multiple reasons. It is, of course, not fair to the women who go through the same training and have the same skills as their male counterparts. Worse still, if well-qualified women are discouraged from entering the profession because of this […]

Section 32, which invests in healthcare and life sciences companies with a technology component, has added a third managing partner. The small venture capital firm was started in San Diego about two years ago by Bill Maris, who, during his time at Google, founded and led its corporate venture capital arm, now part of parent […]

Dauntless Pharmaceuticals formed in 2016, and its founders said the Sofinnova Ventures-backed firm planned to take a new approach to building biotechs. Instead of advancing a broad stable of early-stage drug candidates under the same roof, Dauntless aimed to set up each asset within its own company. The idea was that when it came time […]

David Altarac has been appointed chief medical officer of Entasis Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ETTX). He will succeed Robin Isaacs, who will retire from the Waltham, MA-based company at the end of the year. Entasis said Isaacs will continue to serve as an advisor. Altarac’s experience includes senior roles at Shire, NeoStem, and Merck (NYSE: MRK). Entasis, […]