Turning Point Names Centrexion’s Partridge as Chief Commercial Officer

Turning Point Therapeutics (NASDAQ: [[ticker:TPTX]]) appointed Andrew Partridge as executive vice president and chief commercial officer. Partridge most recently served as chief operating officer and CCO at privately held Centrexion Therapeutics, a Boston company developing treatments for chronic pain. Previously he was with Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: [[ticker:VRTX]]), where he ended a five-year stint as senior vice president and head of North American commercial operations. Prior he held sales and marketing roles at Amgen (NASDAQ: [[ticker:AMGN]]), Roche, and Schering-Plough.

Turning Point, which is developing targeted cancer drugs for patients that have developed resistance to other treatments, made its IPO debut in April 2019, raising about $166 million. Its lead drug candidate, repotrectinib, is being evaluated in Phase 2 registrational trials, which could provide enough data to support a filing for FDA approval.

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.