Morphic Therapeutic (NASDAQ: [[ticker:MORF]]) has named Marc Schegerin as its chief financial officer and chief operating officer. Schegerin was most recently CFO at cancer drug developer ArQule, which Merck (NYSE: [[ticker:MRK]]) agreed to acquire in December for $2.7 billion. Schegerin joins another recent addition to Morphic’s C suite, Peter Linde, who joined the company in March as chief medical officer.
Schegerin’s prior experience includes healthcare investment banking roles at CitiGroup (NYSE: [[ticker:C]]) and Bank of America Merrill Lynch (NYSE: [[ticker:BAC]]) and industry management roles at Biogen (NASDAQ: [[ticker:BIIB]]) and Sage Therapeutics (NASDAQ: [[ticker:SAGE]]). Waltham, MA-based Morphic raised $80 million in September 2018 to move its investigational oral medicines for chronic diseases into the clinic. The biotech’s drug candidates target a family of proteins on the surface of cells called integrins.