Basilea Pharmaceutica Ltd. reported that as of May 1, 2018, Dr. Gerrit Hauck is appointed as Chief Technology Officer and member of the Management Committee. He will succeed Dr. Günter Ditzinger who will take on new responsibilities at Basilea. Dr. Hauck joins Basilea from Sanofi, where he was Cluster Head Synthetic Molecules. In this role he was overseeing most of the company's technical development programs for synthetic molecules from pre-clinical candidates to launch. At the same time he was a member of Sanofi's Research Stage Gate Committee, which is responsible for the transition of candidate molecules from research into development. He also brings significant experience in implementing strategic projects with contract manufacturing organizations. In addition, Basilea reported that Dr. Josef Künzle, Head of Global Quality Management and a member of the Extended Management Committee, will retire effective October 31, 2018. He will be succeeded by Dr. Anne Stehlin, who joins Basilea from Novartis Pharma AG where she served as Global Head of Product Quality Lifecycle Management. In this role, she was responsible for the management of the product quality stewardship of all Novartis biologics and biosimilars throughout the product lifecycle. Prior to this, she had several positions with increasing responsibilities within the Novartis technical operations organization, such as Site Quality Head and Production Head. She will initially serve as Basilea's Deputy Head of Global Quality Management until October 31, 2018.