PeptiDream Inc. announced the appointment of Dr. Keiichi Masuya as Chief Operating Officer (COO). Dr. Masuya has had a distinguished scientific career, most recently serving as "Novartis Leading Scientist" at Novartis in Basel, Switzerland. Dr. Masuya has worked for Novartis for the past 14 years, 10 of those years in Basel, Switzerland and 4 years at the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research in Tsukuba, Japan.

At PeptiDream, in his role as COO, Dr. Masuya will head PeptiDream's in house discovery and development programs, and in addition, manage PeptiDream's Japan discovery collaborations.