Cidara Therapeutics (Nasdaq: [[ticker:CDTX]]) has appointed Jamie Levine as its chief financial officer. Previously Levine served as CEO of two local industrial biotech companies, Sapphire Energy and Verenium. Prior to that he spent 11 years in investment banking at Goldman Sachs where he worked with the bank’s healthcare and energy industry clients. The San Diego company, which is headed by Jeffrey Stein, is working to develop antifungal drugs.
Author: Sarah de Crescenzo
Sarah is Xconomy's San Diego-based editor. Prior to joining the team in 2018, she wrote about startups, tech and finance at the San Diego Business Journal. Her decade of full-time news experience includes coverage of subjects including campaign finance, crime and courts as a reporter and editor at outlets throughout California, including the Orange County Register.
She earned a bachelor's degree in English Literature at UC San Diego, where she wrote for the student newspaper and played collegiate lacrosse. In 2019, she earned an MBA at UC Irvine.
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