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Eli Lilly hires healthcare pro Hakim to be next general

Indianapolis-based pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Co. has tapped Anat Hakim to be its next general counsel. Hakim, who starts next week, will succeeds Michael Harrington, who’s retiring as of Friday. Hakim comes to Lilly from WellCare Health Plans, where she was executive vice president, general counsel and secretary. Before WellCare, Hakim served as divisional vice president, associate general […]

Healthcare High Tech and Biotech News

Cancer biotech company Sesen promotes longtime biosciences lawyer Sullivan to

 Sesen Bio, a late-stage clinical company developing fusion protein therapeutics for cancer treatment , promoted it deputy general counsel, Mark Sullivan, to be its general counsel and secretary. Sullivan (in the photo above) has more than two decades of experience in the life sciences and healthcare industries. He joined Sesen Bio in April 2018 as the […]

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Out with the retired, in with the associate GC at

Roger George, Align Technology‘s senior vice president, chief legal and regulatory officer has retired and will leave the company at the end of August 2019. George was responsible for all aspects of the dental equipment maker’s legal affairs including transactional, securities, governance, intellectual property, real estate and employment matters. Julie Coletti, Align vice president and […]

Healthcare Moves News

Spero Health hires health network pro to lead its legal

Spero Health, a Nashville, Tennessee-based organization that specializes in outpatient care for individuals suffering from substance use disorders, has hired Clint Cromwell to be its chief legal officer. According to the privately held Spero, Cromwell has over 10 years of experience as a lawyer for  healthcare organizations, most recently serving as M&A counsel for Envision Healthcare, where […]

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Alzheimer therapy clinical stage drugmaker hires IP expert to be

Neurotrope Inc.,  a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that’s developing therapies for such neurodegenerative diseases as Alzheimer’s disease, hired Michael Ciraolo as general counsel and chief operating officer. Ciraolo was most recently at Ovid Therapeutics, where he was senior vice president, chief intellectual property counsel.  Before that, he was an executive director at Forest Laboratories. He has been involved with the […]