milt0n
Oct 3, 12:43 PM
$BCRX Another senior position posting from yesterday: VP, Drug Substance, and some key takeaways from the job description.
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/vp-drug-substance-at-biocryst-pharmaceuticals-inc-4472857108
The VP will own drug-substance strategy across “small-molecule active pharmaceutical ingredients and biologic drug substances, from candidate selection and early development through late-stage development, validation, launch readiness, commercialization, and lifecycle management.”. Also explicitly says the role owns drug-substance strategy across the portfolio and participates in: “portfolio reviews, due diligence … and technology or innovation evaluations.” “Due diligence” is the key phrase .
From the hiring I have tracked for the past several months, this seems to support the end-to-end drug-development organization they are trying to achieve minus internal discovery. Buy/license promising science rather than inventing everything yourself, then use the company’s internal expertise to develop and commercialize it.
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