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Pacira names Lee CEO, Hastings chair

ARTICLE | Management Tracks

Plus: CRISPR’s CMO to depart and a new CFO for Alterity

By Richard Guy, Biopharma Analyst, and Gunjan Ohri, Data Content Analyst

December 23, 2023 1:20 AM UTC

Pacira BioSciences Inc. (NASDAQ:PCRX) named Frank Lee CEO and a director and Paul Hastings chair, both effective Jan. 2 — the day after Chairman and CEO David Stack is set to retire.  Lee was CEO and member of the board of Forma Therapeutics Inc.; Hastings, who joined Pacira’s board in 2011, is CEO of Nkarta Inc. (NASDAQ:NKTX).

CRISPR Therapeutics AG (NASDAQ:CRSP) disclosed in an SEC filing the departure of CMO Phuong Khanh Morrow, effective Jan. 26. Morrow joined CRISPR in May 2022. The departure comes days after FDA approved the company’s Casgevy exagamglogene autotemcel, the first CRISPR-based gene editing therapy.