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Sygnature Discovery appoints new Head of In Vivo Pharmacology

CRO Sygnature Discovery has announced the appointment of Susanne Back as Head of In Vivo Pharmacology.
Back has 20 years of in vivo pharmacology experience across academia and industry, including senior scientific and leadership roles at Orion Pharma and Charles River. She will lead one of Sygnature’s in vivo pharmacology teams, delivering the company’s in vivo strategies that it says will support informed decision-making across drug discovery programmes.
Back will be responsible for the scientific and operational leadership of the team, including resource planning, workflow optimisation, and the continued development of innovative and competitive in vivo capabilities.
“I was particularly attracted to Sygnature because of its world-leading integrated drug discovery expertise and the calibre of its scientific community,” Back said.
“The co-located, multidisciplinary environment creates a truly collaborative setting where complex discovery challenges can be addressed efficiently. I am looking forward to working closely with colleagues and clients to ensure we continue to deliver translational in vivo data that accelerates drug discovery programmes.”
The appointment follows Sygnature’s recent strategic brand launch, aiming to reinforce its position as a global drug discovery partner.
The post Sygnature Discovery appoints new Head of In Vivo Pharmacology appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).
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STAT+: Updated: Tracking RFK Jr.’s promises to remake health in America
Updated June 11, 2026
WASHINGTON — A pledge to “Make America Healthy Again” earned Robert F. Kennedy Jr. his job atop U.S. health agencies a year and some change ago. He’s now had the opportunity to turn his words into action, with mixed results.
“All one needs” to prove the health secretary’s attentiveness is to “review my unprecedented list of accomplishments on a wide range of issues, all of which I drove,” Kennedy posted on X on Wednesday in response to a journalist.
Updated June 11, 2026
WASHINGTON — A pledge to “Make America Healthy Again” earned Robert F. Kennedy Jr. his job atop U.S. health agencies a year and some change ago. He’s now had the opportunity to turn his words into action, with mixed results.
“All one needs” to prove the health secretary’s attentiveness is to “review my unprecedented list of accomplishments on a wide range of issues, all of which I drove,” Kennedy posted on X on Wednesday in response to a journalist.
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An obesity drug deep-dive, and peptides move mainstream
Can any of the new obesity medications in development stand out from the pack? Which company just broke records with its IPO? And will the Food and Drug Administration allow greater access to experimental peptides?
We discuss all that and more on this week’s episode of “The Readout LOUD,” STAT’s biotech podcast.
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RFK Jr. claims his calendar is publicly available. We’ve been trying to get it for a year
WASHINGTON — Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday pointed to his “publicly available calendar” as an example of his commitment to transparency and to beat back unfavorable reporting.
But no such calendar, detailing who Kennedy meets with or how he spends his time, has been released by the administration. STAT has been asking the Department of Health and Human Services for Kennedy’s calendar for more than a year, via Freedom of Information Act requests and emails to the press office.
WASHINGTON — Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday pointed to his “publicly available calendar” as an example of his commitment to transparency and to beat back unfavorable reporting.
But no such calendar, detailing who Kennedy meets with or how he spends his time, has been released by the administration. STAT has been asking the Department of Health and Human Services for Kennedy’s calendar for more than a year, via Freedom of Information Act requests and emails to the press office.
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