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Ex-AstraZeneca Exec Morrison Grabs Helm at Syndax Pharma

Ben Fidler

Ben Fidler

June 21st, 2015

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Waltham, MA-based Syndax Pharmaceuticals named former AstraZeneca chief medical officer Briggs Morrison its new CEO, and Michael Metzger, onetime Regado Biosciences president and CEO, its new president. Morrison and and Metzger are replacing former leader Arlene Morris—whose name was conspicuously absent from the news release. FierceBiotech first reported news of Morrison’s departure from AstraZeneca last week. Read more here for the immuno-oncology focused strategy that Syndax—which flirted with an IPO last year under Morris—intends to pursue.

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