Chutes & Ladders—BioNTech brings in Sobi CEO

After a six-month wait, BioNTech has finally filled its vacant CEO spot with Guido Oelkers, Ph.D. Oelkers hails from his tenure as CEO of Swedish pharma Sobi, where he oversaw the licensing of the respiratory syncytial virus therapy Synagis from AstraZeneca, the $915 million acquisition of Dova Pharmaceuticals for the thrombocytopenia medicine Doptelet and the launch of another bleeding disorder drug, Altuviiio, in partnership with Sanofi.