The Cambridge, MA-based cancer drug developer Agios Pharmaceuticals said today it’s tapped John Maraganore, the CEO of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, to join its board of directors. Maraganore has helped build Cambridge, MA-based Alnylam (NASDAQ:[[ticker:ALNY]]) into a leading developer of experimental gene-silencing drugs, or RNA-interference therapies. Alnylam’s major corporate partners include Novartis, Roche, and Takeda Pharmaceutical, among others. He joins Agios’s board about two months after the biotech startup announced its $130 million deal with Summit, NJ-based Celgene to develop drugs that starve cancer cells to death.
Author: Ryan McBride
Ryan is an award-winning business journalist who contributes to our life sciences and technology coverage. He was previously a staff writer for Mass High Tech, a Boston business and technology newspaper, where he and his colleagues won a national business journalism award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers in 2008. In recent years, he has made regular TV appearances on New England Cable News.
Prior to MHT, Ryan covered the life sciences, technology, and energy sectors for Providence Business News. He graduated with honors from the University of Rhode Island in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in communications. When he’s not chasing down news, Ryan enjoys mountain biking and skiing in his home state of Vermont.
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