Biogen recruits Pfizer neuroscience star Michael Ehlers as new R&D chief

Michael Ehlers The bellwether biotech Biogen has wooed a top investigator from Pfizer to take over as head of R&D. The company reported this morning that Michael Ehlers, who had been running the neuroscience and pain research operations at Pfizer, is stepping into the role of executive vice president, R&D. Ehlers, a former Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Duke, had specialized in neuronal organelles and the trafficking of neurotransmitter receptors. His background in the Cambridge/Boston hub working for Pfizer should prove to be a nice fit with Biogen, which has carved out an ambitious set of leading programs on Alzheimer’s and other tough diseases. Biogen’s former R&D chief, Doug Williams, left last summer to run a biotech startup. And Ehlers is benefiting once again from the migration of senior biotech…


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