Epizyme, Inc. announced that the company has appointed Jeffery Kutok, M.D., Ph.D., as chief scientific officer. In this role, Dr. Kutok will direct the company’s scientific strategy, including preclinical research to support the development expansion of TAZVERIK™ (tazemetostat) and the company’s epigenetic pipeline. Dr. Kutok joins Epizyme from Infinity Pharmaceuticals, where he served as executive vice president and chief scientific officer, responsible for scientific strategy, preclinical development and translational science. Prior to joining Infinity in 2010, Dr. Kutok was an associate professor of pathology at Ha rvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where his laboratory conducted preclinical and translational medicine research and biomarker identification in oncology.