Cell therapy company SQZ Biotechnologies has landed an in-house veteran for the life sciences industry to serve as the firm’s first general counsel, just a few weeks after poaching a new chief financial officer from pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. Inc. 

Larry Knopf takes control of the legal department at SQZ after having held in-house leadership roles at medical device makers Boston Scientific Corp. and HeartWare International Inc. He spent the past two years as a legal consultant at an eponymous firm.