Neumora Therapeutics, Inc. announced the appointment of Jason Duncan as chief legal officer. Mr. Duncan will be a member of Neumoras Executive Team, reporting to Henry Gosebruch, chief executive officer, and will oversee all aspects of the Company's legal and compliance functions. Mr. Duncan has more than two decades of legal, compliance, development and operations experience in the life sciences industry.

Prior to joining Neumora, he served as chief legal officer, general counsel, secretary to the board of directors and head of program management at Albireo Pharma, a publicly traded Boston-based biotech company that was acquired by Ipsen earlier this year. During his time at Albireo, Mr. Duncan contributed to growing the company from an early clinical stage biotech to a fully integrated commercial organization with two drug approvals and a successful global launch. Prior to Albireo, Mr. Duncan served as general counsel, Americas at Stallergenes Greer Holdings and vice president, head of compliance and legal, North America at Sobi, Inc. Earlier in his career Mr. Duncan held roles at EMD Serono, Inc., Acushnet Company, Nixon Peabody LLP and Peabody &Arnold LLP.

Mr. Duncan holds a J.D., magna cum laude, from Suffolk University Law School and a B.A. in Political Science from Dickinson College.