Basel- and Heidelberg-based CDMO Celonic Group has appointed Dr Samanta Cimitan as Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

ViroCell Biologics, based in London, Dublin and New York, has appointed Brian Collins as Chief Financials Officer.

Toulouse-based Flash Therapeutics has appointed Jerome Bedier as its new President.

The Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) Governing Board has appointed Niklas Blomberg to be the next Executive Director of the organisation. Dr Blomberg has extensive experience of working in Europe’s life science sector, and is currently Director of ELIXIR, the European life sciences data infrastructure. He will take up his duties at IHI in early 2024.

UK-based CRO Cresset has expanded its senior leadership team with the appointment of Nick Foster as Vice President of their Discovery CRO business.

The appointment of Kate Woolland as new Chief Operating Officer of London-based Closed Loop Medicine Ltd supports delivery of the Company’s product and partnership programs.

Leiden-based Amarna Therapeutics announces the appointment of Dr Henk Streefkerk as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer and Medical Director. Streefkerk has already been Amarna’s Medical Director since mid-2022.

Jeff Borcherding, President of Immunovia’s US subsidiary since April 2022, has been the new Global CEO of Sweden’s Immunovia AB since the end of April.

The French Abivax SA has had a new CEO since the beginning of May. Marc de Garidel took over the position and became interim chairman of the supervisory board.

The biopharmaceutical company ImmunOs Therapeutics AG has appointed Michael A. Curran, PhD, as Chairman of the Company´s Scientific Advisory Board.