
In February 2024, Occam recruited Romuald “Romu” Corbau, PhD as Chief Scientific Officer for Adverum Biotechnologies (Nasdaq: ADVM).
Corbau has over 25 years of life science experience, ranging from startups to global pharmaceutical companies in the United States and Europe. He joins Adverum from GenEdit, where he served as Chief Scientific Officer. Prior to joining GenEdit, Corbau progressed from Vice President of Research to Chief Scientific Officer at Freeline. Before GenEdit, Corbau was the Translational Lead at Spark Therapeutics and held various research positions at Pfizer, CISTIM in Belgium, and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
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