Mass Biotech Council COO Resigns

With an ethics investigation of its recently named president still pending, the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council lost its second in command, chief operating officer Mark Robinson. The COO resigned to work for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, according to the Boston Business Journal.

Author: Rebecca Zacks

Rebecca is Xconomy's co-founder. She was previously the managing editor of Physician's First Watch, a daily e-newsletter from the publishers of New England Journal of Medicine. Before helping launch First Watch, she spent a decade covering innovation for Technology Review, Scientific American, and Discover Magazine's TV show. In 2005-2006 she was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. Rebecca holds a bachelor's degree in biology from Brown University and a master's in science journalism from Boston University.