Date: 2017-12-01
Type of information: Nomination
Compound: chief scientific officer, chief medical officer
Company: Shire (UK - USA)
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- • On December 1, 2017, Shire announced that Andreas (Andy) Busch will join Shire as executive vice president, head of research and development and chief scientific officer, and will become a member of the company’s executive committee beginning in January.
- Dr. Busch is currently head of drug discovery and a member of the executive committee for the Pharmaceuticals division of Bayer, where he leads a team of approximately 3,300 researchers. During his 13 years at Bayer, he has held roles of increasing responsibility within the company, including Senior Vice President, Head Discovery Europe at Bayer HealthCare and Executive Vice President, Global Head Drug Discovery. Dr. Busch was responsible for the Schering drug discovery integration, the overall R&D strategy and enforced the improvement of Bayer’s research productivity. Prior to joining Bayer, Dr. Busch was Global Head of Cardiovascular Research at Hoechst and Sanofi-Aventis. Prior to that, he led independent research groups as a Heisenberg Fellow at the University of Tübingen and the Max-Planck-Institute for experimental Medicine in Göttingen.
- Dr. Busch is a member of several Supervisory and Scientific Boards, including the German Cancer Research Center, the University of Tübingen, the Max-Delbrück-Center and the Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Genetics. He also holds the title of Extraordinary Professor of Pharmacology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt, Germany. Dr. Busch received his license to practice Pharmacy and Ph D in Pharmacology from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt. He is the author of some 400 publications and abstracts, and received the prestigious Sir Bernard Katz and Franz Volhard Awards for his work on renal and cardiac ion channels and transporters.
- Howard Mayer, currently serving as the company’s Head of Research and Development (ad interim), has been appointed Chief Medical Officer, also effective in January 2018. Howard Mayer, MD, is currently Senior Vice President and Head of R&D (ad interim) at Shire. Previously, he was Senior Vice President and Head of Global Clinical Development at the Company. Dr. Mayer joined Shire in 2012 and has been responsible for global clinical development across immunology, hereditary angioedema, hematology, lysosomal storage disorders, gastrointestinal / internal medicine / endocrine, ophthalmics, a growing franchise in oncology, and neuroscience. Prior to joining Shire, he served as Chief Medical Officer at EMD Serono, a division of Merck KGaA.
- Dr. Mayer obtained his BA from the University of Pennsylvania and his MD from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, which was followed by an internship and residency at Mount Sinai Hospital and an Infectious Diseases fellowship at Harvard Medical School. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Genocea Biosciences, as well as the scientific advisory boards of Macrolide Pharmaceuticals and Arsanis Biosciences.
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