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Pliant Therapeutics Appoints Craig Blanchette, Ph.D., as Senior Vice President, Research (siRNA)

$PLRXPress releaseOct 20, 2026, 8:30 AM ETRead the release

Pliant Therapeutics appointed Craig Blanchette, Ph.D., as Senior Vice President, Research (siRNA), tasking him with advancing the company's integrin-mediated delivery platform. Blanchette joined from Switch Therapeutics, where he was CSO, and previously led protein chemistry and oligonucleotide delivery strategy at Genentech, bringing over two decades of RNAi and drug-delivery experience.

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