Pepper Bio: Simon Fricker

Transomic analysis-centric drug discovery company Pepper Bio has hired Simon Fricker as chief development officer. Fricker will work with the company's cofounders, CEO Jon Hu and CSO Samantha Dale Strasser, to push expansion of Pepper Bio's oncology pipeline. He comes to the startup after serving as VP of R&D at Phio Pharmaceuticals and previously was a distinguished scientific fellow at Sanofi's Genzyme subsidiary.