---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-040034"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "VIR"
cik: "0001706431"
company_name: "Vir Biotechnology, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-02-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-05T23:15:39.819731+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Vir Biotechnology CMO Phil Pang to leave at end of March 2024; successor search started

## Summary
- Executive VP and Chief Medical Officer Phil Pang, M.D., Ph.D. departing at end of March 2024, citing family reasons.
- Company has initiated a search for a new Chief Medical Officer.
- No interim CMO named; transition expected by end of March 2024.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-040034
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: VIR
- cik: 0001706431
- company_name: Vir Biotechnology, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-02-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1706431/000119312524040034/0001193125-24-040034-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1706431/000119312524040034/d793408d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-040034
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-040034.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-040034.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Phil Pang departed as Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at Vir Biotechnology, Inc..
  - Action: decided to leave
  - Role: Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
  source text: On February 20, 2024, Vir Biotechnology, Inc. (the “Company”) announced that Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Phil Pang, M.D., Ph.D. has decided to leave the Company at the end of March 2024 to spend more time with his family.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1706431/000119312524040034/0001193125-24-040034-index.htm

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