Around 100 executives highlight the hot areas to watch on the R&D front in 2021. From cancer to CNS and from regenerative medicine to real world data, expectations are high on many fronts.

ES: Public Company Edition: Fifty biopharma companies launched initial public offerings in the US last year and there have been 52 so far in 2020, including Metacrine, Dyne, Athira and COMPASS.

Private Company Edition: The Novo Holdings Repair Impact Fund wants to fund another round of antimicrobial resistance efforts. Also, Atlas Venture raised a new $400m fund, Everest closed a $310m series C round and Cognition received a $78.5m grant.

David Solomon’s entrance as Silence Therapeutics’ new CEO leads this week’s new hires. While Ireland-based Malin shakes up its board of directors, other execs join Merck, Apeiron Biologics, Vectura, Roivant, OncoSec, Breath Therapeutics, Immusoft and M3 Biotechnology.