SonoThera Hires BridgeBio's Adam Shaywitz as CMO — SkimNews

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- SonoThera hired Adam Shaywitz as chief medical officer, adding a new executive to its leadership team.
- Adam Shaywitz previously held the identical CMO role at BridgeBio before joining SonoThera.
- The appointment is featured in STAT's recurring "Up and down the ladder" column, which spotlights a different executive move each week.
- The column explicitly invites industry insiders to submit their own hiring, promotion, and staffing news for inclusion in future editions.
Why it matters: SonoThera fills its chief medical officer seat with Adam Shaywitz, who previously held the same title at BridgeBio, giving the smaller biotech an experienced clinical leader drawn from a larger peer — a lateral C-suite swap that directly tracks who is leaving and joining where in biotech.
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