Moderna Therapeutics, one of the country’s largest biotechnology startups, has hired an in-house veteran as its new general counsel.

In addition to serving as GC, Lori Henderson will be the messenger RNA-based therapeutics company’s corporate secretary and a member of its executive committee. She most recently was senior vice president, GC, corporate secretary and head of business development at Albany Molecular Research Inc. (AMRI). Henderson is Moderna’s second top lawyer, succeeding a GC who left last year, according to a company spokesman, who declined to name that previous legal leader.