ReCode tightens focus
US-based ReCode Therapeutics Inc has strengthened its ties with the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation as it progresses an experimental messenger RNA (mRNA) therapy for the disease through the clinic. Simultaneously, it promoted Heather Clark on 1 July to the role of chief executive from vice president and head of the company’s cystic fibrosis franchise. Ms Clark joined ReCode in 2022. She has nearly 30 years of experience in rare disease drug development of which more than half were spent at Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc, developer of five marketed cystic fibrosis products.
