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Asit Parikh
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. MOMA Therapeutics announced that Asit Parikh, M.D., Ph.D., has been appointed as the company’s president and chief executive officer, effective April 5, 2021.
Dr. Parikh brings more than 20 years of academic and industry experience to MOMA. He will succeed interim founding CEO, Reid Huber, Ph.D., a partner at Third Rock Ventures, who will remain on MOMA’s Board of Directors.
“Asit shares MOMA’s singular focus on patients and brings to our team a deep and diverse R&D, strategy and business background. His experience leading successful interdisciplinary teams and building innovation-rich product portfolios will be highly synergistic with MOMA’s team of passionate drug hunters,” said Dr. Huber. “Asit’s appointment as MOMA’s CEO marks an important milestone toward our goal of transforming the lives of patients. We are thrilled to welcome him to our team.”
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MOMA Therapeutics Appoints Asit Parikh, M.D., Ph.D. as President and Chief Executive Officer
February 1, 2021 GMT
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (BUSINESS WIRE) Feb 1, 2021
MOMA Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company discovering the next generation of precision medicines by targeting molecular machines that underlie human disease, today announced that Asit Parikh, M.D., Ph.D., has been appointed as the company’s president and chief executive officer, effective April 5, 2021. Dr. Parikh brings more than 20 years of academic and industry experience to MOMA. He will succeed interim founding CEO, Reid Huber, Ph.D., a partner at Third Rock Ventures, who will remain on MOMA’s Board of Directors.
January 25, 2021 10:40 am
WESTON, MASS (WLNE) – Massachusetts State Troopers (Weston) are investigating a fatal crash involving a car and tractor trailer.
Police responded to the Mass Turnpike eastbound at Exit 123 (former Exit 14) in Weston at 1:52 AM.
An investigation indicates that a Toyota Camry with a male driver was traveling eastbound and entered the exit ramp, and straddled both lanes.
According to police, a tractor-trailer was traveling in the same direction in the left lane of the exit.
The Toyota struck the right rear of the trailer, with its driver’s side partially under rider the trailer.
They continued to travel a short distance before the Toyota eventually broke free.
Man killed in crash on Massachusetts Turnpike after car collides with, latches onto tractor-trailer
Updated Jan 25, 2021;
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A man was killed in a car crash early Monday after his Toyota Camry collided with a tractor-trailer on the Massachusetts Turnpike, latching onto the vehicle, authorities said.
Massachusetts State Police troopers responded around 1:50 a.m to the crash on the ramp from the eastbound lanes of the Mass. Pike at Exit 123 in Weston, according to officials.
The 2002 Toyota Camry was traveling east on the highway when it entered the exit ramp, straddling both lanes of traffic, state police said in a statement.
‘We’re projecting a downward trend’; How Massachusetts’ largest hospital is handling the second surge
Updated Jan 23, 2021;
After adding more surge capacity for the third time last week, doctors and mathematicians at Massachusetts General Hospital say they’re beginning to ebb out of the second COVID surge, and expect to see a decrease in hospital admissions over the next few weeks.
“We’re in the midst of, or maybe towards the end of, the peak of the plateau phase, and projecting a downward trend from the end of the month on,” said Dr. Peter Dunn, vice president of procedural services, health care system engineering and capacity management.