Rosenberg named CFO of BeiGene

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Plus: CEO Barbier, SVP Burns leave Cassava, and updates from Rezo and Haya

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

July 18, 2024 11:51 PM UTC

Aaron Rosenberg will become CFO of BeiGene Ltd. (NASDAQ:BGNE; HKEX:6160; Shanghai:688235) on July 22, succeeding Julia Wang, who is departing the company in August to pursue external opportunities. Rosenberg was SVP finance at Merck & Co. Inc. (NYSE:MRK), which he joined in 2003. 

President and CEO Remi Barbier and SVP, Neuroscience Lindsay Burns are leaving Alzheimer’s disease company Cassava Sciences Inc. (NASDAQ:SAVA), days after a federal grand jury indicted one of the company’s paid science advisers, Hoau-Yan Wang, for allegedly defrauding NIH. The company named Rick Barry executive chairman and principal executive officer, and is searching for permanent CEO. Barry has served as a director of Cassava since June 2021…