Crunch Time For Glenmark’s US Innovation Arm, Founding CEO To Exit
Executive Summary
Glenmark’s spin-out innovation arm, Ichnos, faces a crucial year of effort to partner out certain potential first-in-class therapeutics for autoimmune diseases and also to advance its oncology pipeline. Meanwhile, CEO and ex-Gilead executive Alessandro Riva is moving on.
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