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A few things on my mind:

A very strange — and painful — year in biotech calls for an unusual nominee to occupy a spot on my annual list of the best CEOs, which is why I’m looking at Catalyst Biosciences’ Nassim Usman.

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Usman and the Catalyst board are working to wind down the long-troubled company’s operations and sell off assets. On Wednesday, Catalyst announced that it would be returning approximately $65 million to shareholders. The funds came from the sale of a portfolio of drug candidates to Vertex Pharmaceuticals.

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