Perlmutter named CEO of Eikon, a biotech with $148M to apply Nobel-winning tech to undruggable targets
Roger Perlmutter, M.D., Ph.D., has taken up the CEO post at Eikon Therapeutics. The startup disclosed the hiring of the former president of Merck Research Laboratories alongside news that it has raised a $148 million series A round to apply live-cell super-resolution microscopy to drug discovery.