Locana Adds Assembly Biosciences’ Mackison as Chief Business Officer

Locana has appointed Micah Mackison as its chief business officer to lead business development and corporate communications.

Mackison most recently led business development efforts at Assembly Biosciences (NASDAQ: [[ticker:ASMB]]) as senior vice president, corporate development and strategy. Previously he led healthcare transactions at Jabil as senior director, corporate investment, and served as head of corporate strategy and senior director, new ventures, at Lundbeck, where he focused on neuroscience. Mackison joined Lundbeck when it acquired Ovation Pharmaceuticals, where he was director of corporate development and mergers and acquisitions, in 2009.

The San Diego-based biotech is developing RNA-targeting gene therapies.

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.