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Steven Kriegsman, Todd Golub

Nov 02, 2006
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CytRx President and CEO Steven Kriegsman has received the Lou Gehrig Memorial Award from the Muscular Dystrophy Association in recognition of the company’s effort to develop a small-molecule therapy for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
 
 
Avalon Pharmaceuticals, a developer of small molecule drugs, has appointed Todd Golub as its chairman and member of its scientific advisory board.
 
Golub is a founding member of the Broad Institute and serves as director of its cancer program. He is also an associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.

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