Alligator lures AstraZeneca exec to its team

18 January 2018
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Swedish biotech firm Alligator Bioscience (STO: ATORX) has appointed Anu Balendran, as vice president business development.

Dr Balendran will be responsible for leading Alligator’s preclinical projects towards out-licensing. He has a PhD in Biochemistry and will join Alligator from his current role as external innovation director at Anglo-Swedish pharma major AstraZeneca (LSE: AZ). He will assume his new role on May 1, 2018.

This appointment follows those of Charlotte A Russell, as chief medical officer and Peter Ellmark, as vice president discovery, in December 2017, as Alligator prepares a number of drug candidates for clinical studies, partnerships and licensing deals.

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