Lonza appoints Daniel Palmacci as President of the Cell & Gene Division

He takes over leadership of Cell & Gene from Jean-Christophe Hyvert, enabling Jean-Christophe to increase his focus on his role as President of the Biologics Division

Evonik appoints Dr. Gaetano Blanda as Head of Animal Nutrition Business Line

Blanda will be responsible for overseeing Evonik’s amino acids and functional feed additives business and the expansion of its precision livestock farming approach

SIRIO appoints Lonza’s Sara Lesina as General Manager in Europe

Her appointment further strengthens the CDMO’s strategy to become the nutraceutical R&D hub for brands looking for agile partners with large scientific and development resources

Ginkgo Bioworks appoints Dr. Behzad Mahdavi as Sr. VP of Biopharma Manufacturing & Life Science Tools

Dr. Mahdavi will lead Ginkgo's commercial efforts in the growing areas of bio-reagents, cell and gene therapies and new biopharmaceutical modalities.

Medix Biochemica appoints former Roche executive to its Board of Directors

Dr. Pedrocchi is currently an Independent Strategic Advisor and Non-Executive Director to private and public healthcare companies.

Philips CEO Frans van Houten to step down; Roy Jakobs named successor

The Supervisory Board has unanimously decided to propose Roy Jakobs as the next President and CEO of Royal Philips to its General Meeting of Shareholders.

Kaléo announces appointments and new government business unit

S. Sridhar resigns as Managing Director of Pfizer

Sridhar will continue to serve in his current position of Managing Director for as long a period as required until the identification, selection and transition to the new leadership takes place in the company.

Natco Pharma appoints Dr. Pavan Ganapati Bhat as Executive Director

He has over 25+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical Industry and has been working with the company for the past 6 years

BioIVT promotes Dr. Richard Haigh to CEO

Jagsonpal Pharmaceuticals appoints Manish Gupta as the MD

Manish led SeQuent since 2014 and played a major role in transforming the company

Avet Pharmaceuticals appoints George Svokos as President &CEO

George Svokos joins Avet after serving as a strategic business advisor to numerous global healthcare companies

HEAPS.ai appoints Ritesh Mittal as Head of Strategy and Customer Success for Provider Network

Mittal will be driving expansion of the provider network across India

Enveda appoints Vanitha Sekar as Chief Business Officer

She joins Enveda from Gilead Sciences

Piramal Pharma strengthens board by inducting three new board members

The appointments will add to the well-diversified experience that currently exists on the PPL board.

ART Fertility Clinics appoints Dr. Somesh Mittal as CEO, India

Mittal has previously managed Multiple backed Vikram Hospital as CEO and was associated with Fortis Escorts Heart Institute as zonal director.

Maria Soler Nunez appointed Head, Group Operations of Lonza

Prior to this, Maria held multiple roles at Novartis including Head of Global Manufacturing Functions, and Global Head of Manufacturing, Science & Technology

DTx Pharma appoints Peter Condon as Chief Business Officer

Condon joins DTx Pharma with more than 20 years of experience in business development, commercial planning, and operations.

Vividion Therapeutics names Aleksandra Rizo as President and Head of R&D

Dr. Rizo brings extensive industry leadership experience to Vividion, having held multiple senior executive roles during her career at both biotechnology and large pharmaceutical companies.

MEI Pharma appoints Anne Frese as Chief People Officer

Most recently, she served as chief human resources officer at Vyripharm Enterprises.