Tango Therapeutics, Inc. announced the appointment of Adam Crystal, M.D., Ph.D. as President of Research and Development. In this executive leadership role, Dr. Crystal will oversee all phases of preclinical research, drug discovery and clinical development. Alan Huang, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, and Ron Weitzman, M.D., Ph.D., Chief Medical Officer, will continue to lead the research and clinical development functions, respectively, as members of Dr. Crystal's team Most recently, Dr. Crystal served as Chief Medical Officer of C4 Therapeutics where he oversaw the advancement of several oncology drug candidates into clinical trials.

Prior to that, Dr. Crystal was at Novartis Oncology where he led multiple early clinical development programs. Dr. Crystal has served as a medical oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital where he studied resistance mechanisms to targeted therapies. He completed his internal medicine training at Massachusetts General Hospital and his fellowship in medical oncology at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Dr. Crystal holds an M.D., as well as a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.